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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 53682 Gender:	Re: Mushroom lady trial starts today Reply #330 - Aug 10^th, 2025 at 10:54pm Australia to increase exports of Mushrooms 🍄 🍄🍄 to other nations for consumption.
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Reply #331 - Aug 25^th, 2025 at 3:49pm

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-25/blog-erin-patterson-plea-hearing-august-2...

Key Event

10m ago

Prosecution asks for maximum sentence over murder

The prosecution begins its argument for Erin Patterson's sentence.

The Crown submits that the court should impose the maximum penalty for the murder charges.

Key Event

24m ago

Erin Patterson's autism spectrum disorder raised

Justice Beale asks Mr Mandy about Patterson's diagnosis with "Asperger's syndrome".

Mr Mandy makes reference to depositions from Simon Patterson and Child Protective Services that detail various references to Patterson having autism spectrum disorder, ADHD and anxiety.

Mr Mandy says these conditions mean Patterson finds imprisonment especially difficult, with his client unable to adapt to changes in routine.

Justice Beale tells Mr Mandy that it doesn't sound like there is much variation to Patterson's routine currently in the Gordon Unit.

Mr Mandy tells Justice Beale that things change on a "minute-by-minute" basis in the unit, including other "mentally ill" inmates causing disruption in the cells next door.

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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 114284 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Mushroom lady trial starts today Reply #332 - Aug 25^th, 2025 at 5:06pm https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/25/australia/australia-erin-patterson-hearing-so... Mass murderer - Erin Patterson arrives at Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia on August 25, 2025.
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Reply #333 - Sep 6^th, 2025 at 11:31pm

She will be sentenced on Monday :

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/07/australia/australia-erin-patterson-mushroom-t...

Erin Patterson, the Australian woman accused of killing three relatives with a meal of
death cap mushrooms baked in a Beef Wellington lunch,
will be sentenced on Monday morning after she was found guilty
of three counts of murder and the attempted murder of the lone survivor.

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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 114284 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Mushroom lady trial starts today Reply #334 - Sep 6^th, 2025 at 11:40pm The extraordinary case has attracted international attention and, in a very rare instance, the sentencing will be livestreamed from the Victoria Supreme Court.
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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 89102 Proud Old White Australian Man Gender:	Re: Mushroom lady trial starts today Reply #335 - Sep 6^th, 2025 at 11:58pm Jasin wrote on Aug 10^th, 2025 at 10:54pm: Australia to increase exports of Mushrooms 🍄 🍄🍄 to other nations for consumption. Relief supplies for Hamas?
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 114284 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Mushroom lady trial starts today Reply #336 - Sep 7^th, 2025 at 12:09am Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Sep 6^th, 2025 at 11:58pm: Jasin wrote on Aug 10^th, 2025 at 10:54pm: Australia to increase exports of Mushrooms 🍄 🍄🍄 to other nations for consumption. Relief supplies for Hamas? I wonder if the guy with the mobile gallows turns up at the sentencing?
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Reply #337 - Sep 8^th, 2025 at 10:50am

She got 33 years before being eligible for parole.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/07/australia/australia-erin-patterson-murder-sen...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-08/mushroom-murderer-erin-patterson-sentence...

Erin Patterson will spend at least 33 years behind bars for murdering three relatives and trying to kill a fourth with beef Wellingtons laced with death cap mushrooms.

A Victorian Supreme Court judge today handed Patterson, 50, a life sentence for the 2023 murders of her in-laws Don and Gail Patterson with Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson.

However, Justice Christopher Beale spared Patterson the harshest penalty under the law – a life sentence with no parole – meaning she could potentially leave prison if she is still alive in the year 2056.

Patterson has already been in custody for close to two years.

Follow our coverage of convicted triple-murderer Erin Patterson's sentencing live.

The triple-murderer was also sentenced to 25 years for the attempted murder of Heather Wilkinson’s husband Ian.

Justice Beale called the crime "an enormous betrayal".

The fatal mushroom lunch made global headlines and was one of Australia's most talked-about cases in decades.

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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 114284 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Mushroom lady trial starts today Reply #338 - Sep 8^th, 2025 at 11:48am We should have the death penalty for such serious crimes.
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Captain Nemo Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 13357 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Mushroom lady trial starts today Reply #339 - Sep 8^th, 2025 at 11:51am Life with 33 non-parole, minus 2 years already served. Possibly out in 2056. I dare say most of us will not be alive to see her release. She really is a very, very nasty person.
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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 89102 Proud Old White Australian Man Gender:	Re: Mushroom lady trial starts today Reply #340 - Sep 8^th, 2025 at 12:29pm This is a truly dreadful, cold, calculated thing to do. I always say no conviction can be 100% without doubt - but when the accused lies and changes stories .... Should've gone to SpecSavers ...
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Reply #341 - Sep 8^th, 2025 at 1:37pm

Captain Nemo wrote on Sep 8^th, 2025 at 11:51am:

Life with 33 non-parole, minus 2 years already served.

Possibly out in 2056. I dare say most of us will not be alive to see her release.

She really is a very, very nasty person.

It was premediated - she betrayed her only friends and
caused them great suffering and death.

She should be hanged from the highest yardarm in Port Phillip bay.

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Gordon Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 21403 Gordon Gender:	Re: Mushroom lady trial starts today Reply #342 - Sep 8^th, 2025 at 1:46pm She will never leave prison alive. Fat guts will either die before parole or have them denied. I'm close to her age, so hope I'm still here when her parole application is denied.
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Reply #343 - Sep 8^th, 2025 at 1:51pm

Gordon wrote on Sep 8^th, 2025 at 1:46pm:

She will never leave prison alive. Fat guts will either die before parole or have them denied.
I'm close to her age, so hope I'm still here when her parole application is denied.

She shouldn't be given special protection -

she should be among the general prison population.

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 147368 Gender:	Re: Mushroom lady trial starts today Reply #344 - Sep 8^th, 2025 at 4:05pm Bobby. wrote on Sep 8^th, 2025 at 11:48am: We should have the death penalty for such serious crimes. No. We're a civilised country. Civilised people don't carry out premeditated killings. Those who do, end up in prison for 33 years. And rightfully so.
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