A jury is deciding the fate of one Australian woman accused of 3 murders by mushroom poisoning

Morwell: A jury in Australia began deliberations in Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial on Monday, accused her husband’s relatives of deliberately serving poisonous mushrooms for lunch and killing her husband’s relatives. Three of the four lunch guests of Patterson, his parents, Dawn and Gayle Patterson and Gayle’s sister Heather Wilkinson, died in the hospital after 2023 meals at their home in Leongatha, on which he served the Death Cap mushroom individual beef wellington pastry. She is accused of attempting to kill Heather’s husband Ian Wilkinson, who was seriously ill, but survived. During the nine -week Supreme Court testing in the state of Victoria, Patterson gave evidence in his defense. The life of a 50 -year -old mother of two faces in the jail is convicted.