Mushroom killer sentenced to life for a toxic family lunch

The Australian woman went to prison for life, unable to release at least 33 years, for killing three relatives and attempts to kill another toxic mushroom food.

The term in prison, one of the longest, which, if -was handed over to the woman in Australia, means that Erin Paterson, 50 years old, will be in the 80s before she can apply for parole.

The Judge of the Supreme Court said that Paterson’s crimes were a “worst category” for pruning and participated in a “complex cover”.

Paterson killed her son -in -law Don and Gale Paterson, 70, as well as sister Gayl Helkinson, 66, after giving them toxic beef Velington at their home in Victoria in 2023.

Hisher Jan Wilkinson’s husband, a local pastor, survived the lunch after recovery from coma and has constant health problems associated with poisoning.

The remote husband of Paterson Simon Paterson was designed for lunch, but canceled at the last moment, partly from his conviction trying to poison it for years.

Paterson has long supported his innocence, saying that the dish she had prepared was accidentally added to death, and that she was never going to harm her relatives.

It will be held three lifetime in a row for three murders and 25 years for attempting to kill Mr. Wilkinson.

During the verdict, Justice Christopher Bill said that the burden of Paterson’s crimes meant that he should impose a “maximum punishment”.

The prosecutor’s office claimed that the two of the two should be sentenced to life in prison without the prospect of being released by a severe punishment in Australia.

Bill’s justice agreed that the crimes were the worst of their kind, but stated that his decision to permit the parole influenced the “harsh conditions of prison” in prison – including 15 months spent in solitary imprisonment, and a “significant chance”.

The judge noted that the reputation of Paterson and the high level of media and public interest in her case meant that she was probably “remained a sad prisoner for years to come and, as such, remains a significant risk from other prisoners.”

He further described the current Conditions in Patterson’s prison in the maximum security prison, where she spends 22 hours a day in her cell without contacts with other prisoners with her “main status of the criminal”.

Justice Bill noted that the accusation was not allegedly motive for Paterson’s crimes during the trial of the ninth -week murder, which ended two months ago and that he would not.

“Only you know why you committed them,” he said, citing three murders and a murder attempt. “I won’t think about this.”

The judge said that Paterson “did not show that there was no sorry for the days after lunch,” because those who ate toxic food fought for their lives in the hospital.

“Your inability to show remorse, poured salt in all the wounds of the victims,” ​​he said in court.

Outside the trial, Jan Wilkinson, the only one who survived in the deadly lunch, first told about the difficult test that tore his family.

He thanked the police and the prosecutors who worked on the case, as well as the countless medical workers who treated the victims and himself in the days after lunch.

“I would like to encourage everyone to be good for each other,” said Mr. Wilkinson.

At the preliminary hearing of the crescent moon ago, Wilkinson described a sense of “half” after the death of his “beautiful wife” and lost two best friends.

High control and interest in the case of Paterson ended with a sentence on Monday, and the court for the first time in its history decided to allow the television camera to the courtroom so that the trial is broadcast live.

Previously, only internal cameras had live performances.

Paterson has 28 days to make an appeal to the punishment, as well as the sentences guilty of triple murder and attempted murder.