Letters to the Editor

Concise reporting

Jul 15 2025 Updated 11 hours ago

Sentinel-Times

1 min read

AGED 68, I have been reading newspapers for over 60 years. Except for the headline ‘Mushroom murderer guilty of all charges’, The Sentinel-Times, July 8, 2025, the court report at page three is one of the most concise that I have read.

Nicholas Green, Inverloch

Evil in our midst: Jury finds Erin Patterson guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty

LEONGATHA mother of two, Erin Patterson, has been found guilty of three counts of murder and one of attempted murder after a marathon trial in the Supreme Court at Morwell. The jury returned its verdict on day six of its deliberations, on Monday...

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Michael Giles

07 Jul 2025

News

Still, we wait… but here’s what happens when the verdict comes

IT’S day three of the jury’s deliberations in the Erin Patterson murder trial at Morwell. But by lunchtime on Wednesday, July 2, there’s still no verdict and no questions either from a jury that has spent two nights sequestered in a Latrobe...

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Michael Giles

02 Jul 2025

Police

Two Bass Coast teenagers arrested after stabbing in Wantirna South

DETECTIVES charged three teenagers after a stabbing and affray in Wantirna South on Monday, July 7. It is alleged that an altercation took place between a group of teenaged boys at a shopping centre on Burwood Highway in Wantirna South about 5.30pm...

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Sentinel-Times

10 Jul 2025

News

Erin Patterson: A crime what she put them through

ONE of the heroes of the health response to the medical mayhem caused by Erin Patterson, when she poisoned her four lunch guests that day, was young, nightshift registrar at Dandenong Hospital, Dr Beth Morgan. Of course, they were all heroes in the...

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Michael Giles

08 Jul 2025

One-point classic keeps Panthers’ finals hopes alive

THE battle for the coveted sixth spot on the ladder drew a fitting conclusion when Kilcunda-Bass scraped by with a one-point win against Inverloch-Kongwak on Saturday. Kilcunda-Bass breathed a sigh of relief when it claimed the four points to be...

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Sentinel-Times

11 hours ago

Football

Yinnar pressure too much for Tarwin

By Rob Popplestone THE Mid Gippsland Football Netball League was this week recognised as one of the most even and competitive football competitions in regional Victoria, but in round twelve the results of some big matches would also clear a pathway...

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Sentinel-Times

11 Jul 2025

Football

Tigers roar back to claim Skinner trophy

by Rover MIRBOO NORTH regained the Ron Skinner Memorial Trophy from Newborough, with an 83-point eclipse of the Bulldogs, at Tigerland on Saturday. The match took place in idyllic 16-degree sunshine on a lushly green-grassed surface, where any...

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Sentinel-Times

10 Jul 2025