Australian judge sentences Erin Patterson to life in prison for poisoning relatives with mushrooms
Melbourne punished Australia (AP)-A Australian judge Triple Murderer on Saturday Erin Patterson To life in prison for a period of 33 -year -old parole to poison four of his relatives of his relatives with death hat mushrooms.
Justice Christopher Beale told the court that Patterson, the Victoria State Supreme Court, had a tremendous betrayal of trust.
In July, Patterson was convicted of killing Don and Gail Patterson and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, a lunch was connected to the mushrooms of Welington Paste and Wing of Death Hat.
Patterson was also sentenced to trying to kill Heather’s husband Ian Wilkinsonspent for weeks in the hospital.
Patterson’s alienated husband, Simon PattersonHe was invited, but he did not serve his father -in -law for his July 2023 lunch and his aunt and uncle of his alienated husband in his house.
Beale said, “Your victims were all your relatives with marriage. More than that, as you have accepted in your testimonies, it has been good for you and your children for years,” he said.
“You just cut off the short three lives and caused permanent damage to Ian Wilkinson’s health, so that you have suffered from the destructive expanded Patterson and Wilkinson families, your beloved grandmother and grandfather.
Both prosecution and defense lawyers admitted that life imprisonment was a suitable penalty for one of the three 50 -year -old murders and murder attempts.
However, defense lawyers wanted Patterson to be suitable for conditional evacuation after 30 years of service. The prosecutors argued that the court should never be considered for conditional evacuation because it did not deserve the mercy of the court.
