India, Sept. 8 -- An Australian woman convicted of murdering three elderly relatives with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms was sentenced on Monday to a minimum of 33 years in prison, one of the longest sentences ever handed to a woman in the country.
Erin Patterson, 50, showed no remorse, the presiding judge said, after serving her in-laws Beef Wellington laced with deadly death cap mushrooms.
The meal killed her mother-in-law Gail Patterson, father-in-law Donald Patterson, and Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson. Heather's husband, Ian Wilkinson, survived the 2023 poisoning at Patterson's home in Leongatha, a town of about 6,000 people southeast of Melbourne.
Patterson was found guilty in July of the three murders and the attempted m...
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