Sydney – An Australian woman was sentenced on Monday for killing three major relatives of her separate husband with a meal mixed with poisonous fungi, in a case that has taken over the country.
Erin Patterson, 50, was accused of the murders of his mother -in -law Gail Patterson, the father -in -law Donald Patterson and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, along with the murder attempt of Ian Wilkinson, Heather’s husband.
The four gathered in Erin Patterson’s house in Leongatha, a city of about 6,000 people about 84 miles southeast of Melbourne, where the mother of two served them a meal of individual beef wells accompanied by mashed potatoes and green beans, which were then discovered that they contained death fungi.
On Monday, the jury in the case found it guilty of the four positions, the court heard in Morwell, a city about two hours east of Melbourne, where the trial was held.
Patterson, who had declared himself innocent of all the charges, saying that the deaths were accidental, will be sentenced at a later date.
The 10 -week trial attracted a great global interest, with the local and international media that descended in Court 4 in the Court of Magistrates of Latrobe Valley in Morwell, the court closest to the house of Patterson, where he had requested to be tried, despite being warned of long delays.
The Daily Podcast of the state announcer ABC on the procedures was consistently among the most popular in Australia during the trial, while several documentaries on the case are already in production.
