Lawyers for Erin Patterson, the Australian mushroom killer appealing her conviction, argued on Wednesday that putting her jurors up in the same hotel as police and prosecution officials was a “catastrophic” failure of the justice system.
Patterson, 51, serving a life sentence for murdering three members of her estranged husband’s family by feeding them food laced with death-cap mushrooms, appeared by video link as her barristers Richard Edney and Veronika Drago presented seven grounds of appeal to the Victorian Court of Appeal.
