One of the only poisoning survivors says that Erine Patterson has left him “half alive” – ​​my country

The only survivor A toxic meal coated with toxic mushrooms An Australian court told Monday that he felt only “half a neighborhood” after the death of his wife and the loss of his close friends.

Ian Wilkenson read the effect of the victims in a hearing to judge Irene Patterson50, in the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne. Patterson will be sentenced on September 8 on three murder charges and one of the attempted murder.

Jury Convicted of Patterson in July Donation and Patterson were killed, both 70, and the sister of Jill, Heather Wilkenson, 66, with lunch of beef, Ningon and mushrooms.

Patterson’s scattered husband, Simon Patterson, was invited to lunch in July 2023, but he did not attend.

As I was convicted Trying to kill Ian WilkensonThose who ate lunch too. Then he spent weeks in the hospital and survived after receiving the liver transplant.

The prosecution of the prison sentence has argued without the possibility of conditional release, while the defense lawyers want Patterson to be eligible to release 30 years.

When his late wife described the court, Wilkenson said she was full of love, kindness and self -control.

He said before crying: “I just feel half alive without it.” “It is one of the painful shortcomings in our society, where a lot of attention is heated on those who do evil and very few for those who do good.”

He also said his life was “very poor without” generation and without Patterson, and Patterson’s scattered husband, Simon.

He said: “I feel sorrow because Eren acted with a harsh and calculated ignorance of my life and the life of those I love.” “What foolishness does someone think that killing can be the solution to their problems, especially killing people who have good intentions towards them?”

Wilkenson Patterson made forgiveness for what she did.

“My prayer for her is that she will be used in prison wisely to become a better person,” he added.

Patterson, who is facing life imprisonment, attended the court personally on Monday and appeared emotionally by Wilkenson. Seven relatives of the victims read the data of their influence to the court, where some of them read on their behalf.

Patterson’s lawyers previously claimed that she had no reason to commit murders because she recently moved to a new house, she was financially comfortable and had a single custody of her children. They also said that she was scheduled to start studying for a nursing and dumping certificate.

But the prosecutors who suggested that Patterson had two sides: the woman who publicly had a good relationship with her parents, and her true feelings towards them, which were hidden.

The next day of the meal, all the four Patterson guests were taken to the hospital by poisoning from the mushroom mushroom, also known as Amanita Validat, which was added to the beef dish.

“I felt a few months ago that my relationship with the broader Patterson family, especially without a generation, may have had a little distance or space between us,” Patterson, Patterson He previously said during the trial. “We saw each other less.”

Wilkinson The courtroom previously told Patterson was painted “All the food” and “hesitant” appeared for her lunch guests to go to her store.

“Everyone had an individual service, it was very similar to a pie,” Wilkinson said. “It was the case of pastries and when we cut it, there was a slice of meat and honor.”

He said that they all ate from four gray paintings and ate Patterson from the “Orange Tan” painting.

“I picked up the individual plate and carried it on the table. I took it to its place on the table,” he told the court.

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Wilkinson also said that his wife told him the next day that she had “noticed the difference in the colors” of the paintings.

He said that he and his wife “ate the entire meal”, while ate without his meal and half of the beef and Landton, which did not end.

“There was a talk about husbands who help their wives,” he said.

Wilkenson described how he and his wife became very sick after that, as they were vomited and diarrhea in the same evening as lunch, but they rejected the symptoms of gastroenteritis.

Wilkenson said that the doctors treated them due to food poisoning and “doubts were falling on meat.” He said that he had not heard any male of mushrooms at that time.

The next morning, the hospital’s medical staff told the couple that their situation was “dangerous.” Wilkenson said he “suddenly woke up by a group of nurses who literally ran in the corridor in our family to the urgent care zone.”

He claims that the doctor told them that he is suspected of “poisoning mushrooms.”

“He was very straightforward,” Wilkinson added. “He said it was a very dangerous situation.

Patterson faces life imprisonment for both murders and 25 years to try to kill.

She will have a month after her sentence was issued to resume against her punishment and conviction.

In Canada, the hatred of death Located in many BC forests But it can also be found in the city environments associated with many types of imported trees. According to the BC Center for Disease Control, mushrooms were monitored on Vancouver Island and in the lower mainland.

CAP Death Cap is like a common fungus, but it should never be eaten. If you suspect that you might have consumed the Cap Cap, you should immediately seek emergency medical care.

Symptoms of poisoning by the mushroom of death include low blood pressure, nausea and vomiting.

– With files from Global News and Assocated Press

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