{"id":4500,"date":"2026-10-30T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/mushroom-killer-erin-patterson-can-never-be-released-from-prison-judges-rule-national-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T20:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:00:47","slug":"mushroom-killer-erin-patterson-can-never-be-released-from-prison-judges-rule-national-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/mushroom-killer-erin-patterson-can-never-be-released-from-prison-judges-rule-national-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Mushroom killer Erin Patterson can never be released from prison, judges rule – National | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Australian appeals court ordered Friday that triple murderer Erin Patterson<\/a> never be released from prison because of the the \u201cshocking criminality\u201d involved in poisoning four of her estranged husband\u2019s family members with death cap mushrooms.<\/p>\n

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Three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal dismissed Patterson\u2019s appeal of her convictions and upheld prosecutors\u2019 challenge to the leniency of her 33-year non-parole sentence, meaning she will spend the rest of her life in prison.<\/p>\n

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Before, she would have been 82 years old by the time she would have been eligible to be considered for release.<\/p>\n

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Justice Stephen McLeish said her crimes were \u201cextraordinarily cold and calculated and stand to be denounced in the strongest terms,\u201d according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn all the circumstances after anxious consideration, we have concluded that the case involved such shocking criminality that it is inappropriate to fix a nonparole period,\u201d McLeish added.<\/p>\n

Patterson is the second woman in Australian history to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n

She joins Katherine Knight, who was sentenced in New South Wales in 2001 for the murder of her partner John Price, after she stabbed him at least 37 times.<\/p>\n

Patterson\u2019s convictions relate to a family dinner she hosted at her rural home in 2023, where she served a beef Wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms.<\/p>\n

Patterson, 50, was convicted in July<\/a> of murdering Don and Gail Patterson and Gail\u2019s sister, Heather Wilkinson.<\/p>\n

Her estranged husband, Simon Patterson, was invited but did not attend the July 2023 lunch<\/a> served to her parents-in-law and her aunt and uncle at her home.<\/p>\n

She was also convicted of attempting to murder Heather\u2019s husband, Ian Wilkinson, who survived.<\/p>\n

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