Erin Patterson has been found guilty of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives, who died after she deliberately served them poisonous mushrooms for lunch.

Erin Patterson, 50, is facing three charges of murder, and one charge of attempted murder, after hosting a fatal beef wellington lunch in July 2023. Three people died in hospital in the days after Ms Patterson’s lunch: Ms Patterson's in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson, 66.

The Australian woman was convicted of murdering three elderly relatives of her estranged husband with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, and attempting to murder a fourth, in a case that gripped the country.