{"id":818107,"date":"2026-10-30T00:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818107\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T00:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:28:14","slug":"australian-mushroom-murderer-erin-patterson-loses-appeal-to-overturn-convictions-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818107\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian mushroom murderer Erin Patterson loses appeal to overturn convictions &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What were Patterson\u2019s grounds for appeal?published at 22:06 GMT 29 October<\/p>\n<p>22:06 GMT 29 October<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Erin Patterson\u2019s appeal against her guilty conviction argues that she didn\u2019t receive a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firstly, her legal team say there are bits of evidence that jurors should never have seen as they were not relevant and prejudicial. They included mobile phone tracking data that suggested she went to areas where death cap mushrooms were and Facebook messages where she complained about her in-laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patterson\u2019s lawyers also argued that other evidence was wrongly excluded such as photos that would have proved her long-time hobby of mushroom foraging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prosecution was also inconsistent in arguing a motive, Patterson\u2019s team argued, starting the trial by saying they wouldn\u2019t argue a particular motive but then in their closing address, implying that there was a motive. The five days of cross-examination she underwent was also \u201cunfair and oppressive\u201d, Patterson argued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The most intriguing part of Patterson\u2019s appeal revolves around an unusual mishap which saw the jury &#8211; as they were deliberating the verdict &#8211; stay in the same hotel as members of the prosecution, a key police witness and the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What were Patterson\u2019s grounds for appeal?published at 22:06 GMT 29 October 22:06 GMT 29 October Erin Patterson\u2019s appeal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-818107","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}