Mushroom Trial

Mushroom murders: ‘There will be an appeal against conviction’

LEGAL counsel for Leongatha triple murderer, Erin Patterson, Richard Edney, has told the Supreme Court in Melbourne this week that his client intends to appeal her conviction. Mr Edney was addressing the trial judge in the Erin Patterson case...

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Michael Giles

02 Oct 2025

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Erin Patterson’s case back in court Thursday

THE case of the Leongatha mushroom murders might not yet be over. Despite being handed life sentences on each of the three murder charges, for the deliberate poisoning death of three of her in-laws, and 25 years for the attempted murder of another...

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Michael Giles

01 Oct 2025

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How even Google is mocking Leongatha’s mushroom murders

YOU can’t control what they say on social media, it seems, and heaven knows there’s been some tasteless comments there following the sentencing of mushroom murderer Erin Patterson on Monday this week. But we should be able to draw the line when...

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Michael Giles

12 Sep 2025

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Timeline of Erin Patterson’s ‘mushroom murders’

THE bewildering case of the Leongatha ‘mushroom murders’ which so captivated the world in 2023, 2024 and 2025 started with the first of two credible discoveries of death cap mushrooms growing in the Leongatha-Korumburra area, at the Loch Recreation...

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Michael Giles

09 Sep 2025

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Mushroom murderer gets life with a non-parole period of 33 years

LEONGATHA mushroom murderer Erin Patterson has been handed a crushing sentence of life in prison, with a minimum of 33 to serve, for the murders of her husband Simon Patterson’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister Heather...

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Michael Giles

08 Sep 2025

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‘Worst category of offending’ says Justice Beale

FOR the substantial premeditation, involving months of planning and execution by mushroom murderer Erin Patterson, for her ‘pitiless behaviour’ post offending in refusing to help the suffering victims, for the direct and indirect suffering...

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Michael Giles

08 Sep 2025

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Kindness, thanks and forgiveness the message of hope from Ian Wilkinson

THE only lunch guest to survive the deadly meal of Beef Wellington, laced with death cap mushrooms, Pastor Ian Wilkinson, has stood out like a beacon through the dark process of bringing the perpetrator, Erin Patterson, to justice. After giving his...

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Michael Giles

08 Sep 2025

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Video: Homicide investigation ‘doesn’t mean it’s suspicious’

POLICE have provided new details about the tragic deaths of three Korumburra residents and the hospitalisation of another, allegedly as a result of eating a meal of poisonous mushrooms, with symptoms consistent with consuming Death Cap mushrooms...

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Sentinel-Times

07 Aug 2023

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Media cops a broadside from Simon Patterson

THE “abrasive legal system” and “occasionally callous mainstream media” copped a blast from Simon Patterson in his victim impact statement, read into the court record by his cousin Naomi Gleadow, at the plea hearing on Monday, August 25. Mr...

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Michael Giles

02 Sep 2025

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Love, loss, forgiveness and the sad impact of Erin Patterson’s heinous crime

THE impact of Erin Patterson’s actions, in murdering her husband Simon’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, was always going to fall heaviest on the people who were left behind. On her own children, robbed of...

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Sentinel-Times

27 Aug 2025

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Why Simon’s alleged poisoning charges were dropped

ON MONDAY, July 7, 2025, Leongatha mother of two, Erin Patterson, was found guilty on four charges, three counts of murder against her in-laws Gail and Don Patterson and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, and one of attempted murder against Ian...

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Michael Giles

11 Aug 2025

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What ‘helpful’ Erin said in her police interview

AT THE urging of the media, without objection from the Patterson and Wilkinson families but against the wishes of convicted triple murderer, Erin Patterson, the full video recording of the police record of interview with Ms Patterson has now been...

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Michael Giles

08 Aug 2025

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‘A lot of victim statements’ in mushroom murder case

JUSTICE Beale has set aside a whole day of a two-day plea hearing later this month just to hear “a lot” of witness impact statements arising out of the murders of three Korumburra family members, and the attempted murder of a fourth. On Friday...

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Michael Giles

08 Aug 2025