Australian state to press for longer sentence for mushroom killer


  • World
  • Monday, 06 Oct 2025

MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Australia's Victoria state will appeal the sentence handed down to convicted mushroom murderer Erin Patterson, with the prosecutor calling the sentence 'manifestly inadequate," Australia's national broadcaster reported on Monday.

Patterson was last month convicted of murdering three elderly relatives of her estranged husband with a meal containing poisonous mushrooms in the township of Leongatha, Victoria. She was sentenced to a minimum of 33 years in prison.

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