- Triple murderer Erin Patterson has reportedly been approved for Ozempic weight-loss injections while serving a life sentence at Melbourne's Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.
- The 51-year-old was granted the prescription due to being in solitary confinement with limited opportunities to exercise, following medical advice.
- Victorian shadow police minister Brad Battin criticised the decision as disgraceful, arguing that taxpayers should not subsidise weight-loss drugs for inmates.
- Patterson was convicted last year of killing three relatives and attempting to murder a fourth by serving toxic death cap mushrooms in a beef Wellington meal in July 2023.
- Maintaining that the poisoning was accidental, Patterson returned to court last month to appeal her convictions, with judges currently reserving their decision.
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