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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Maroosha Muzaffar

Lone survivor of mushroom murders pleads for privacy to grieve after killer jailed for life

Ian Wilkinson, the sole survivor of the deadly 2023 mushroom lunch Erin Patterson served to her relatives, appealed for privacy as his family continued to grieve the three people she killed.

Patterson, 50, was sentenced to 33 years in prison in Melbourne without parole after being found guilty in July of murdering her 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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