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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Namita Singh

Woman who murdered family lunch guests by poisoning beef wellington with mushrooms jailed for life

Erin Patterson, the Australian woman who murdered three of her estranged husband’s family by poisoning them with death cap mushrooms, has been sentenced to life in prison.

The 50-year-old was found guilty in July of killing parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, with a lunch of beef wellington pastries laced with foraged death cap mushrooms.

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