{"id":945729,"date":"2026-10-29T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945729\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T23:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:58:11","slug":"erin-patterson-appeal-live-updates-mushroom-killers-appeal-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945729\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Patterson appeal live updates: Mushroom killer\u2019s appeal fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Patterson\u2019s sentencing last year, Judge Christopher Beale spoke of the \u201cenormous betrayal of trust\u201d involved in the murders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour victims were all your relatives by marriage. More than that, they had all been good to you and your children over many years, as you acknowledged in your testimony,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Accused killer Erin Patterson. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/b725b86e46f953656e3b71e750e971ba1cebeee2.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">A court sketch of Erin Patterson.\u00a0Anita Lester<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only did you cut short three lives and cause lasting damage to Ian Wilkinson\u2019s health, thereby devastating the extended Patterson and Wilkinson families, you inflicted untold suffering on your own children whom you robbed of their beloved grandparents.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Beale ultimately concluded that Patterson\u2019s offences were in the \u201cvery worst category\u201d of murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Patterson\u2019s sentencing last year, Judge Christopher Beale spoke of the \u201cenormous betrayal of trust\u201d involved in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-945729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}