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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Shweta Sharma

Erin Patterson should never be freed, prosecutors filing an appeal against sentencing say

Prosecutors have lodged an appeal against mushroom killer Erin Patterson’s life sentence on the grounds that the judge was too lenient in allowing her the possibility of parole after 33 years.

Patterson, 50, was sentenced last month for the murders of her former in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, and their relative Heather Wilkinson, and for the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson.

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