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Woman jailed for mushroom poison murders given harsher sentence
Erin Patterson is only the second woman in Australia to be imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole.
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An Australian appeals court on Friday ruled that triple‑murderer Erin Patterson will never be released from prison after finding her poisoning of four estranged‑husband relatives with death‑cap mushrooms “shocking criminality.” The three judges of the Victoria Court of Appeal dismissed her appeal and upheld prosecutors’ challenge to the leniency of her 33‑year non‑parole sentence, meaning she will spend the rest of her life behind bars. Prior to the ruling, Patterson could have been considered for release at age 82.
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