{"id":669605,"date":"2026-10-30T06:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669605\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T06:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:26:09","slug":"australian-mushroom-murderer-loses-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669605\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian mushroom murderer loses appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian mushroom murderer Erin Patterson lost a bid to overturn her convictions, failing to prove she was wrongfully jailed for killing three people with a poisoned lunch.<\/p>\n

Patterson was found guilty last year of murdering her husband’s parents and elderly aunt, deliberately lacing their beef Wellington meal with highly toxic death cap mushrooms.<\/p>\n

However, the 52-year-old maintained her triple murder convictions were a “miscarriage of justice”, urging the Court of Appeal in Victoria state to either set her free or have the case heard again.<\/p>\n

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\nEach death cap mushroom contains enough poison to kill a healthy adult<\/p>\n

The court said it had “dismissed” her application, finding insufficient grounds to try the case again.<\/p>\n

It also found that Patterson’s original jail sentence – which saw her eligible for release after 33 years – did not match the gravity of her crimes.<\/p>\n

The court ruled Patterson’s non-parole period should be set aside, meaning the 52-year-old is likely to die in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian mushroom murderer Erin Patterson lost a bid to overturn her convictions, failing to prove she was wrongfully…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-669605","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}