Mushroom lunch survivor forgives Erin Patterson, saying she has ‘become the victim of my kindness’ | Erin Patterson mushroom trial

Ian Wilkinson heard that he forgives Erin Patterson for trying to kill him, but heard a Victoria court, heard that he could not offer to forgive three other people with poisonous beef.

Wilkinson, a priest who was killed by his wife, brother -in -law and brother -in -law by Patterson after serving lunch in 2023, said that he did not fully recover from the mushroom poisoning of his death hat to the Melbourne Supreme Court on Monday.

Last month, Patterson was sentenced to kill 66 -year -old Heather Wilkinson and both convicted of Don Patterson and Gail Patterson and Ian attempting to kill.

On Monday, he faced a defense hearing of the court before his conviction by Justice Christopher Beale.

Wilkinson, who stopped at the end of the bar desk during the court and met Beale instead of Patterson, spoke about 20 minutes about the effect of what he called “fate lunch”.

“I am making an offer to forgive Erin,” he said to the court.

“Regarding the murders of Heather and Gail and Don, I have to look for justice.

“I am no longer a victim of Patterson, and he’s the victim of my kindness.”

Wilkinson was that he would use Patterson in custody for reform. But he said he was uncomfortable with his decision to kill his loved ones and try to kill him.

Orum I feel sorry for Erin’s life and the life of my loved ones and being upset that it is calculated, ”he said.

“What stupidity is a person who thinks that the problems of murder may be the solution of the problems of the murder, especially people with good intentions against him?”

Wilkinson was the first of the seven victims of victims read in court on Monday, and 28 of them were given to the court to evaluate Beale.

He talked about his 44 -year marriage with Heather and the loss of joy and silence caused by his murder. He said that his biggest work was at home, who believed that they raised them to be good people.

“He was smart and had the skills that made up my shortcomings,” he said.

“Together we met life as a team and we were pleased with each other’s company.

“The way our children execute themselves through the crisis of our illness and subsequent legal processes is proof of motherhood skills… The trauma and close death they experienced in their mothers’ death left deep wounds.”

“A really terrible thought to live, someone can decide to get his life,” Wilkinson said.

At this point, he took off his glasses, threw his tears with a texture and sipped some water before he continued.

“My installation, resurrection and in the next age will come together again.”

Wilkinson said that he felt very little shower for those who do evil and goodness, and that Don and Gail’s death felt that Patterson’s crimes were the second biggest effect on him.

Erin’s alienated husband Simon Patterson read the expression of the victim’s effect by his cousin Naomi Gleadow in court.

He said that he missed his parents and aunt, çok More than words can express, but I am grateful for being with God and I will see them again. ”

Simon said that if they had not encountered a timeless end, considering the genes of their parents, he believed that all three could reach 100 years old.

Simon said two children, a son born in 2009 and a daughter born in 2014, “a type of relationship with each child longed for” he said.

“Only a solo parent knows that they lived in a broken house, and almost everyone knows that his mother had killed his grandfather and his grandfather, but both children remained strong and knew that they would always be loved and supported.

Simon said that the court process and the scope of the media were inhuman.

In the early hours of the morning, he told the “emotionless” and “pitiful” behavior of the “foreigners” grip cameras and laptops, which raped the window of his house and followed himself and his children to the public.

Ian Wilkinson stood at the bar table, while his daughter Ruth Dubois read the expression of the victim effect.

Dubois said that Patterson was deeply uncomfortable by watching a dinner at the dining table, watching a dinner where family members will kill them, and then followed it with “extraordinary lies and a lack of complete care”.

Patterson had many times that he could leave the plan, but he chose to follow every step of the road ”.

Dubois found that the scope of the media has combined the grief and quit the second forecast to whom he could share with his pain. “Especially rebellion” said that some media uses the tragedy as en entertainment for the masses ..

Considering the effect of Patterson’s two children, Dubois said he could not understand that Patterson behaved as it was.

Expressions of Lynette Young, Heather and Gail’s sister; Don’s mother Martha Patterson; Colin Patterson, Don’s younger brother; And Don’s nephew Tim Patterson was also read to court.

Tim Patterson, who was read by his sister Gleadow, said that he wrote the day after lunch on July 30: “Don and Gail is in the hospital with food poisoning after dinner in Erin’s, or the evil he played here?” He said.

He said that the worst fears of their worst fears were worsening the next day.

“Before that, he only experienced death from a distance”, but he had to take into account the death of his loved ones, including Don, which he described as a role model.

“Why did he decide that he would make his life a portrait of death and destruction?” He said.

50 -year -old Patterson did not need to talk during the hearing, the other is to verify four questions about the details: date of birth, age, previous work and old address.

On the day of his decision, Patterson, who was drawn more than the last time in court and seemed to be a gaunt, watched quietly, but became emotional during the statements, sometimes dived with a texture in his eyes and nose.

The court will receive news on Monday about the detainees of Patterson from Victoria correction commissioner Jenny Hosing.