GUILTY Australia - 3 dead after eating wild mushrooms, Leongatha, Victoria, Aug 2023 *Arrest* #17

[Kemug]

she would be perfect if she can pull off the accent

I doubt she can. eg IIRC, people praised Meryl Streep's accent when she played Lindy Chamberlain. I didn't. Australian accents are many and varied, also mostly not as "Aussie" as they once were. Plus we have plenty of fine Australian actresses (sorry, must be politically correct, actors). So why bother with an American, or other? And she doesn't need to be middle-aged, as a movie would likely begin when she was in her 20's. MOO

 

[Serononin]

From 19:42 ish Says in this video that Justice Beale is going on leave & a pre-sentence hearing will probably be in the 1st week of August

Still an interim suppression orders over things said in court out side of the jury's presence & that we may be hearing more about that soon ( I guess that is what the application is for tomorrow @ 14:15 )

Justice Beale has certainly earned a holiday after all that!

 

[JBowie]

This pay-walled article in The Australian reports that a former work associate of Patterson alleges that possible financial hanky-panky was involved in her leaving her job with Airservices Australia in 2002.

@Detechtive: can you shed any light on her work history now?

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/uncovering-erin-pattersons-past-chequered-work-history-and-the-mushroom-murder-trial/news-story/0bf0be17d6af1ccc2fc6c23a947c474b

 

[HoneyBunOne]

They should have lost their platform years ago, after they broadcast that poor minor's rape disclosure for ratings. They're the lowest of the low.

MOO

They are vile. He makes my skin crawl and I cannot switch channels fast enough when I come across their show on the radio. Send them back to Sydney!

 

[iamshadow21]

They are vile. He makes my skin crawl and I cannot switch channels fast enough when I come across their show on the radio. Send them back to Sydney!

No, we don't want them either!

MOO

 

[JBowie]

They are vile. He makes my skin crawl and I cannot switch channels fast enough when I come across their show on the radio. Send them back to Sydney!

Unfortunately, they never left Sydney.

 

[SouthAussie]

Interesting. I wondered before about the fingerprints found on the dehydrator, and wondered if Erin wore gloves when she disposed of it at the tip. It looks to me from these photos that she is wearing white gloves

Yes, I zoomed in on the photos. White gloves.

imo

 

[SMK777]

I had stopped following this case but was stopped in my tracks by this headline:

An Australian woman is found guilty of murdering her in-laws by toxic mushrooms

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/07/nx-s1-5451735/erin-patterson-mushroom-murder-trial-verdict

 

[Monstradamus]

Yes it’s weird that a couple of ppl are making that reference …. As honestly I can’t imagine why, as there is nothing dynamic or exceptional about EP

Just your typical narcissist with her flying monkeys, imo

 

[TootsieFootsie]

DBM

 

[MrJ]

I'm struck by how senseless and needless this all was. Truly no winners

 

[Deleted member 363451]

He did an excellent job, he gets paid, and his reputation is further enhanced.

He looked very angry when he left the court.

 

[CityKid]

I count 5 - 6 seconds in that toilet

That looked like enough time to bin something, nothing more. MOO

 

[CityKid]

Some people get down on defense lawyers. I don't, with the caveat that they deport themselves appropriately for the court and the gravity of their office. Erin paid for the best, and they did their best for her.

MOO

I agree. They are defending and protecting their clients' rights in the legal system. Mandy did the best he could with the material he was given.

 

[Serononin]

Pictured: Patterson’s phone that was never recovered by police​

A photo has emerged of Patterson in hospital on 31 July, 2023, with a phone in a pink case.

The phone, which was dubbed Phone A during the trial, was never recovered by police.

The prosecution had argued it was the phone Patterson primarily used from February 2023 until August 2023, which Patterson agreed was the case.

The court heard Patterson gave police Phone B when they searched her home on 5 August 2023.

She had claimed she did so because she was in the process of changing her phone after the lunch because she didn’t want her estranged husband Simon to contact her.

Erin Patterson is pictured in hospital with her primary phone. Credit: Supreme Court of Victoria

All the evidence that brought down triple murderer Erin Patterson

A jury took just seven days to find the mother-of-two did deliberately lace a beef wellington with toxic death cap mushrooms to kill three people and almost murder a fourth.

7news.com.au

WOW I'm very surprised that they have CCTV in a clinical space

Video recording is used in some medical testing (e.g. seizure studies) and has also been used in some cases to monitor patients suspected of something like Munchausen/Munchausen-by-proxy, so I'm not surprised they have the equipment in the room, but I do wonder what prompted them to start recording in this case (assuming it's not standard procedure, because that seems like it would be a privacy/data protection nightmare)

 

[JBowie]

He looked very angry when he left the court.

Angry at what do you think? He's going to be paid and, IMO given her litany of lies and her actions, there's no way he could have honestly believed that she was innocent.

He's a barrister: you win some, you lose some. C'est la guerre.

 

[MaxDecimus13]

I count 5 - 6 seconds in that toilet

The idea that that is somebody with severe gastro is pretty laughable.

 

[iamshadow21]

I'm struck by how senseless and needless this all was. Truly no winners

There never is with murder.

I am always relieved when a verdict goes the way I think it should for justice, but immediately after I tend to get really angry, even tearful, because it's all such a freaking waste. It's almost always a case of people being petty or selfish or spiteful, and because of that, a person is dead? And the perpetrator is in prison, possibly forever? And everyone around them is reeling from the fallout and trauma.

And for what?

Such extreme violence, pressing the nuclear option on not just the victim's life, but their own life, their family's lives, their friends lives, the lives of the jurors who have to sit through, witness, enact justice, carry the trauma forever. And for what? A moment of catharsis from rage, jealousy, resentment, covetousness, desire, frustration?

There are no winners here. There is justice, but no fixing what is forever broken and forever stolen.

MOO

 

[CuriousDetective]

They should have lost their platform years ago, after they broadcast that poor minor's rape disclosure for ratings. They're the lowest of the low.

MOO

Totally agree. They are pathetic.

 

[303gmf]

Key Event
17m ago

CCTV of Erin Patterson dumping dehydrator at the tip​

​

By Madi Chwasta​

Here are some stills from the Koonwarra Transfer Station's CCTV from August 2, 2023, which was taken days after the deadly lunch.

The vision shows Erin Patterson carrying a dehydrator into a large green shed.

(Supplied: Victorian Supreme Court)

(Supplied: Victorian Supreme Court)

(Supplied: Victorian Supreme Court)

Jury finds Erin Patterson guilty of three counts of murder — as it happened

The jury in Erin Patterson's triple-murder trial has found her guilty of murdering three relatives by deliberately lacing a beef Wellington lunch with death cap mushrooms. Follow the verdict as it happened.

www.abc.net.au

Those white pants saw much action! Lol