GUILTY Australia - 3 dead after eating wild mushrooms, Leongatha, Victoria, Aug 2023 *Arrest* #20

[Detechtive]

EP is totally nuts. Shaking my head here.

I saw someone say somewhere else that maybe her lawyer liked rats?

 

[Scuffy35]

ABC Radio Melbourne will be broadcasting the sentencing from about 9.25 am EST if it's not on tv or streamable where you are ABC listen app - ABC listen

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I don't think the court for this case has ever had such an early start. Sky news also advertised the same time.

Maybe these broadcast are including an hour of their own recap of the case before the court proceedings begin?

 

[Megnut]

Rat is probably infused with the bubonic plaque.

I recommend politely declining gifts from EP.

JMO

 

[Observe_dont_Absorb]

Plenty of nonpsychologists, too.

In my opinion, she did nothing new, novel, or worthy of study.

MOO

Agree, JMO the only thing of note that would move humankind forward in a case like this is -

a) guidance on what to do if you seriously suspect someone may be poisoning you;
b) guidance on what to do if someone alerts you to the idea they may be being poisoned;
c) fresh thinking around how hospitals investigate inexplicable severe digestive ailments, to include the possibility of looking into malicious poisoning sooner than later;
d) maybe a review in how the police acted.

 

[dothetime]

I saw someone say somewhere else that maybe her lawyer liked rats?

Or a trojan rat, perhaps?

 

[Megnut]

Is she just in seriously poor taste always? Inside joke? Rat = rat poison.

Maybe she made/gave it with the purest of intentions, but then I ask, since when has she made or given anything with pure intentions?

I have my doubts.

JMO

 

[Charlot123]

Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson gifts lawyer Bill Doogue crochet rat ahead of sentencing​

The historic moment comes as the heinous murderer gifted her top defence lawyer a “thank you” present for representing her for more than two years.

Full story here

My memory instantly jumped to Cosa Nostra sending a fish as the message, “he sleeps with the fishes”..,

The “rat” who “rats” on the mafia also came from their lexicon.

So maybe a warning to keep one’s mouth shut?

 

[sunspun]

Even if the motive was revenge, her perception of harm is insane. They didn’t do anything to her. IMO

Agreed, and I will add that her perception of revenge, if revenge it was, is also insane! imo

Couldn't she have just let the air out of their tires or something? (Obviously s/)

 

[tillytatler]

Do we know what time the sentencing stream begins?

 

[LinasK]

Had she murdered them by poison one at a time, months apart, she may have gotten away with it. By poisoning 4 people in one go, the spotlight was immediately on her and she lost the plot, having to make up lies on the run, imo.

I can think of two women poisoners in the US who have done that to family members and gotten away with it for quite awhile- Diane Staudte killed her husband, then her son, then attempted to murder her daughter, but she survived. Stacy Castor murderered two husbands, and attempted to murder her daughter and blame the last husband's murder on the comatose daughter, but she survived as well. At some point, people start to figure out that the deaths aren't a coincidence.

 

[LinasK]

Do we know what time the sentencing stream begins?

It's today right? In about 3 hours??

 

[Ellery84]

Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson gifts lawyer Bill Doogue crochet rat ahead of sentencing​

The historic moment comes as the heinous murderer gifted her top defence lawyer a “thank you” present for representing her for more than two years.

Full story here

This is why she can’t have nice things. She’s allowed one hobby, and she uses it to make a rat for her lawyer.

I hope they take her hooks and needles away. Gosh. Imagine not being able to be trusted with one damn thing.

 

[Monstradamus]

Do we know what time the sentencing stream begins?

9.30am AEST

 

[MrJ]

I thought the same thing. Rat = snitching. Or any manner of bad associations with the humble rat that could be inferred.

 

[KBlackRabbit]

Crochet rats are cute and I’d like to be generous and think it was an inside joke or maybe the lawyer likes rats (the domesticated ones actually are lovely pets), but she has a vengeance streak a mile long even for minor perceived slights. I’m curious what the lawyer thinks of the rat.

 

[MrJ]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1964799008343515476

 

[Oz Jen]

@tillytatler 9.30am

https://vimeo.com/event/5357020

 

[LinasK]

9.30am AEST

So two hours.

 

[Monstradamus]

So two hours.

Correct.

"Erin Patterson, I sentence you to a life sentence, with a non-parole period of 35 years."

Or

"Erin Patterson, I sentence you to a life sentence, without parole."


Option B has a nice ring to it.

 

[ch_13]

Crochet rats are cute and I’d like to be generous and think it was an inside joke or maybe the lawyer likes rats (the domesticated ones actually are lovely pets), but she has a vengeance streak a mile long even for minor perceived slights. I’m curious what the lawyer thinks of the rat.

I hope he's wearing gloves when she hands it to him.

Or better yet, a hazmat suit.