Prosecutors have accused a 50-year-old Australian woman of deliberately lying about a cancer diagnosis to lure her in-laws to a poisoned lunch that she thought they would not survive. The prosecution ...

The jury in the mushroom poisoning trial of Erin Patterson will start deliberating next week after judge Christopher Beale continued giving it instructions on Thursday. Ms Patterson, 50, has pleaded ...

An Australian woman on trial for allegedly murdering three of her relatives with a mushroom-laced meal told a court it was possible she had searched online for death cap mushrooms, although she could ...

Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson will spend at least the next 33 years behind bars. Ms Patterson was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years in Melbourne’s Supreme Court on ...

ERIN Patterson was back in court last Friday. The Leongatha mushroom murderer appeared via video link in Melbourne’s Supreme Court for a mention to decide the date for her plea hearing. The plea ...

Erin Patterson, 50, is accused of killing her former in-laws Don and Gail Patterson, both aged 70, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, after allegedly serving them a Beef Wellington dish laced ...