Australian woman convicted of triple killing after serving a mushroom in Al -Fitr – my country

Australian woman Irene Patterson On Monday, he was convicted of killing three relatives of her husband, who is deliberately separated Toxic mushroom service for lunch.

The jury in the Victoria’s Supreme Court trial rearcerated the ruling after six days of deliberation, After the trial of nine weeks. Patterson faces life imprisonment and will be sentenced to it at a later time.

Patterson, 50 years old, did not appear any emotion, but she quickly retreated as the rulings were read during her session between two prison officers.

Three guests of Patterson lunch died-her father, Don and Jill Patterson, both 70, and the sister of Heather Jelly Wilkenson, 66 years old-in the hospital after eating a toxic meal in her home in the rural town of Lyongartha on July 29, 2023.

Patterson was also convicted of trying to kill Ian Wilkenson, Heather’s husband, who survived the meal.

Patterson Suggesting individual meals from Wellington, which contains the mushrooms of deathMashed potatoes and green beans.

Patterson acknowledged that he was not guilty of the four charges, on the pretext that the deaths were accidental.

The jury was asked to decide whether Patterson knew that lunch contains the mushroom of death and if it intends to die its guests. It was not important that Patterson had served mushrooms or that the pastry pastry and the Ningon killed their guests.

The guilty rulings, which were required to be unanimously, indicated that the jury refused to defense of Patterson that the presence of poisonous mushrooms in the meal was a terrible accident, due to the inclusion of the sinner in the twentieth mushrooms that did not know that it was death caps.

Prosecutors did not provide a motivation for the killings, but during the trial, the tense relations between Patterson and her scattered husband and frustration that she felt towards his parents in the past highlighted.

The case focused on whether Patterson was planning to kill the killing or accidentally killed three people, including the grandparents of her only children who are alive.

Her lawyers claimed that she had no reason to commit murders because she recently moved to a new house, and she was financially comfortable and has a single nursery for her children. They also said that she was scheduled to start studying for a nursing and dumping certificate.

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

The prosecution said that her relationship with her separate husband, Simon Patterson, who was invited to have a deadly lunch but did not attend, deteriorated in the year before the deaths.

The next day of the meal, all the four Patterson guests were admitted to the hospital by poisoning from the mushrooms of the hat for death, also known as Amanita Validat, which was added to the beef and pastry dish. Ian Wilkenson survived after the liver transplant.

“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.

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“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.

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.

Judge Christopher Bell previously told the jurors that the plaintiffs have Detailed fees were dropped Against Patterson She claims that she also tried to kill her separate husband With toxic mushrooms.

Mushroom 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’ Michelle Butterfield and Associated Press

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