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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter

‘Sick of this’: Erin Patterson told friends she wanted ‘nothing to do’ with in-laws, mushroom lunch trial hears

Don and Gail Patterson
Erin Patterson has pleaded not guilty to the murder of her parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson (pictured), Heather Wilkinson, and the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson, after she served a beef wellington lunch containing toxic mushrooms at her home in regional Australia. Photograph: Supplied

Erin Patterson told a Facebook group chat “this family I swear to fucking god” and said she wanted “nothing to do” with her parents-in-law, according to messages shown in a Victorian court.

Messages written by the user Erin ErinErin, which the court has previously heard was one of three Facebook names used by Patterson, also included saying she was ““sick of this shit” and “fuck em” about the parents of her estranged husband, Simon.

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