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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rod McGuirk

Prosecutor tells Australian appeals court mushroom poisoning murderer should never be released

Australia Poisonous Mushrooms - (AAP Image)

Triple-murderer Erin Patterson should never be released from prison after she poisoned four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms, a prosecutor told an Australian court on Thursday.

Prosecutor Brendan Kissane told three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal that a judgment that Patterson must serve 33 years of a life sentence before she can apply for parole was “manifestly inadequate,” in an appeal on the leniency of her sentence.

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