Five key moments in the murder trial of Australia’s mushroom lunch cook Erin Patterson

Erin Patterson, 50, served a lunch of beef wellingtons that contained death cap mushrooms to four relatives at her home in regional Australia in 2023. Her parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, subsequently died. Illustration: Josh Nicholas/AP/Guardian Design

The triple murder trial of Australia’s mushroom lunch cook has attracted worldwide fascination and intense media attention for months.

After seven days of deliberations, a supreme court jury found Erin Patterson, 50, guilty of murdering her parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, with poisoned beef wellingtons she served for lunch at her home in Leongatha, Victoria. She was also found guilty of attempting to murder the fourth lunch guest, Heather’s husband, Ian Wilkinson.