30 Apr 2025

Trial begins of woman accused of toxic mushroom lunch

From Checkpoint, 5:15 pm on 30 April 2025

The trial of an Australian woman accused of killing three of her inlaws by feeding them a lunch of toxic beef wellington - laced with death cap mushrooms is underway. Erin Patterson has pleaded not guilty to killing her husband Simon parents Don and Gail and his aunt Heather Wilkinson. Michael Giles, a journalist and publisher of the South Gippsland Sentinel-Times spoke to Lisa Owen.