A suburban Australian mom is standing trial on charges of poisoning several of her estranged husband's relatives with death cap mushrooms at a home-cooked meal — killing three of them — in a ...

Ms Patterson, 50, is facing trial over the alleged death cap mushroom poisonings of Simon Patterson’s parents and aunt and uncle at a lunch she hosted on July 29, 2023, at her Leongatha home.

Simon, the estranged husband of mushroom cook Erin Patterson, has told the jury about the moment he turned down an invite to the lunch which ended up killing three members of his family.

Erin Patterson is facing trial after pleading not guilty over a fatal mushroom lunch that killed Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson.See all 21 stories. The first witness for the ...

Sydney (AFP) – The estranged husband of an Australian woman accused of triple murder with a toxic mushroom-laced beef Wellington told a court on Thursday his father was "hunched" in pain before ...

The next day all four guests were hospitalised with symptoms of death cap mushroom poisoning, and later three of them died. Patterson was arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder over ...

Simon Patterson was invited to the fatal meal prepared by Erin Patterson - but decided not to attend the day before The estranged husband of a woman who served a poisonous mushroom lunch to her ...

SYDNEY, May 1 (Reuters) - The estranged husband of an Australian woman accused of murdering three of his elderly relatives with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms told a court on Thursday their ...

Picture: Brooke Grebert-Craig / NCA Prosecutors have alleged the beef wellington meal was intentionally laced with death cap mushrooms, a claim Ms Patterson has denied. Ms Patterson is accused of ...

All four guests were hospitalized the next day with poisoning from death cap mushrooms, also known as amanita phalloides, that were added to the beef and pastry dish. Ian Wilkinson survived after ...