- Australian woman Erin Patterson, 51, has returned to court to appeal against her convictions for murdering three relatives with death-cap mushrooms.
- She was previously convicted of murdering her estranged husband’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, along with Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, and attempting to murder Heather’s husband, Ian Wilkinson.
- Her defence lawyer, Richard Edney, argued that jury sequestration was fundamentally flawed because jurors shared a hotel with police and media.
- Edney described the failure to prevent jurors from potentially encountering people connected to the trial as an inexplicable and catastrophic error.
- The case centres on a July 2023 lunch in Leongatha, Victoria, where Patterson served a beef Wellington containing poisonous mushrooms.
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