Those who died – and the lone survivorpublished at 03:33 British Summer Time
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Here’s a quick summary of the people involved in this case:
Erin Patterson, 50, has been convicted of three counts of murder, and one charge of attempted murder, after hosting a fatal beef Wellington lunch in July 2023.
Three people died in hospital in the days after Patterson’s lunch: Patterson’s in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66.
Heather’s husband, local pastor Ian Wilkinson, recovered after weeks in an induced coma.
Simon Patterson, the accused’s estranged husband with whom she has two children, had been invited to the lunch too, but pulled out the day before. His wife was originally charged with trying to kill him on three other occasions, but these charges were dropped without explanation on the eve of her trial and the details of the allegation only revealed earlier this month.
