Erin Patterson verdict live updates: Mushroom killer guilty on all charges over fatal beef Wellington lunch
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Key events
07 Jul 2025 - 03:19 PM
First pics released of fatal beef Wellington
07 Jul 2025 - 02:31 PM
Wild new food tampering allegation against Patterson
07 Jul 2025 - 01:59 PM
Mushroom murderer’s message for friend after verdict
07 Jul 2025 - 01:47 PM
Erin Patterson’s explanation for not being as sick as lunch guests
07 Jul 2025 - 01:32 PM
Where Patterson will be taken now she has been found guilty
07 Jul 2025 - 01:27 PM
Victoria Police react to Erin Patterson guilty verdict
07 Jul 2025 - 01:20 PM
How Patterson claims she made fatal beef Wellington
07 Jul 2025 - 01:16 PM
Why Patterson cooked beef Wellington at fatal lunch
07 Jul 2025 - 01:13 PM
Patterson’s Facebook rant about Patterson family before lunch
07 Jul 2025 - 01:03 PM
Erin Patterson’s friend reacts to guilty verdict
07 Jul 2025 - 12:58 PM
Police preparing to move Patterson from court to prison
07 Jul 2025 - 12:52 PM
New pictures surface of the mushroom killer
07 Jul 2025 - 12:42 PM
Coloured lunch plates and what Patterson kept secret from medical staff
07 Jul 2025 - 12:38 PM
Guilty Erin’s fascination with mushrooms
07 Jul 2025 - 12:34 PM
How Erin Patterson reacted to her guilty verdict
07 Jul 2025 - 12:29 PM
What the jury were asked to consider in Erin Patterson triple murder trial
07 Jul 2025 - 12:26 PM
What led to Erin Patterson’s guilty verdict
07 Jul 2025 - 12:20 PM
Erin Patterson guilty on all charges
07 Jul 2025 - 12:18 PM
Jury enters Victorian Supreme Court to deliver verdict
07 Jul 2025 - 12:15 PM
Court resumes for verdict
07 Jul 2025 - 12:08 PM
Quick recap of the Erin Patterson mushroom trial
07 Jul 2025 - 12:07 PM
Erin Patterson to return to court for verdict
07 Jul 2025 - 12:01 PM
Jury reaches verdict in Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial
Live coverage closing
We’re closing our live coverage for today, but if you want to catch up on all the latest from the Erin Patterson trial as it happened, scroll through the posts below.
To recap:
- Erin Patterson was found guilty on three counts of murder and one of attempted murder.
- Never-before-seen pictures of the convicted killer were released moments after the verdict.
- And reports come in that Patterson had been thrown in solitary confinement after fellow inmates accused her of tampering with prison food.
- Here’s the full wrap of the trial too.
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Jury enters Victorian Supreme Court to deliver verdict
The jury has returned to the Victorian Supreme Court in the Latrobe Valley after a week of deliberation.
Court resumes for verdict
The court has resumed for Erin Patterson to learn her fate.
Stay with us as we bring you live updates on the verdict.
Quick recap of the Erin Patterson mushroom trial
The lunch on July 29, 2023, was served by Ms Patterson at her Leongatha home to in-laws Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister and her husband, Heather and Ian Wilkinson.
Only Ms Patterson and Mr Wilkinson survived.
It was a “special” lunch, Ms Patterson previously told the court, to thank her family and spend time with them amid concerns of growing distance from her separation with former partner Simon Patterson, Don and Gail’s parents.
The evidence the jury was tasked to consider included Ms Patterson’s court testimony, where she detailed a history of lies that she told, including ones about illness that she didn’t have and the ownership and use of a food dehydrator.
Justice Beale had told the jury that those lies may not be enough to find Ms Patterson guilty.
“That is not to say just because you find she lied about one matter that she lied about everything else,” he told the jury before they were sent to deliberate.
“It is for you to decide what significance to give these alleged lies.”
Erin Patterson to return to court for verdict
After an 11-week trial, Erin Patterson, the mum who cooked a fatal, death cap mushroom-laced beef Wellington lunch that killed three, will learnt her fate in the Victorian Supreme Court.
On Monday, the jury confirmed it had reached verdicts for the charges.
Justice Christopher Beale is reconvening court at 2.15pm AEST as Australia and the world wait to see what fate has been decided.
Ms Patterson will be in the court.
Jury reaches verdict in Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial
The jury in Erin Patterson’s mushroom triple murder trial has indicated to the court that they have reached verdicts.
The court will reconvene at 2.15pm AEST.
More to come...
