SYDNEY, June 19 — An Australian woman accused of killing three lunch guests with toxic mushrooms fell sick from the same meal, her defence said today, rejecting claims she faked her symptoms. Erin ...

In fact, from the early hours of Monday, July 31, 2023, before Patterson arrived at the hospital, the lunch guests were already being treated for death cap mushroom poisoning.

They died after consuming death cap mushrooms served in beef Wellingtons during lunch at her Leongatha home on July 29, 2023. Only Pastor Ian Wilkinson survived the lunch, with a charge of ...

Erin Patterson, 50, charged with murdering her estranged husband's parents, aunt 'Amanita phalloides' commonly known as the 'death cap', is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus and mushroom ...

Lawyers acting for alleged mushroom poisoner Erin Patterson urged the jury to find her not guilty of all charges, labelling the prosecution case “convoluted”.

Claims alleged poisoner Erin Patterson sought out death cap mushrooms months ahead of a lunch with her in-laws have been rubbished by her defence as “total speculation”. Continuing his final ...

Sydney (AFP) – An Australian woman accused of killing three lunch guests with deadly mushrooms should not be judged guilty just because she lied after the meal, her defence lawyer said Wednesday ...

Erin Patterson is charged with murdering her estranged husband’s parents and aunt in 2023 by spiking their beef Wellington lunch with death cap mushrooms.

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