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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Australian convicted murderer Erin Patterson has alleged a ‘substantial miscarriage of justice’ took place when she was convicted for killing three people with toxic mushrooms, court documents made public today showed. — AFP pic
SYDNEY, Nov 5 — Australian convicted murderer Erin Patterson has alleged a “substantial miscarriage of justice” took place when she was convicted for killing three people with toxic mushrooms, court documents made public today showed.
Patterson, 51, was handed life in prison with parole this year for serving a beef Wellington laced with poisonous fungi to her estranged husband’s parents, aunt and uncle during a lunch at her home in 2023, killing three of them.
Local media, including national broadcaster ABC and the Sydney Morning Herald, reported Monday that Patterson’s bid to appeal her guilty verdicts had been lodged and accepted by the Court of Appeal.
The state of Victoria’s Court of Appeal said today however that while her appeal had been lodged, it had not yet been accepted.
In a document outlining the grounds for her appeal, Patterson’s lawyer alleged several counts of “substantial miscarriage of justice” took place during her trial, which sparked a global media frenzy.
They said that a “fundamental irregularity” had taken place while the jury was sequestered that “fatally undermined the integrity of the verdicts”, without giving further details.
Patterson’s lawyer also accused the prosecution of an “unfair and oppressive” cross-examination during the trial.
And her lawyer said that evidence submitted and accepted by the judge was not relevant to her case, while others were not admitted but should have been.
She also requested that she not be physically present in court should an oral hearing into her case go ahead.
Patterson was sentenced in September and a judge said she would be eligible for parole after 33 years.
The prosecution has since appealed that “manifestly inadequate” sentence.
Throughout a trial lasting more than two months, Patterson maintained the beef-and-pastry dish was accidentally poisoned with death cap mushrooms — the world’s most lethal fungus.
But a 12-person jury found Patterson guilty in July of murdering her husband Simon’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, as well as his aunt Heather Wilkinson, at her home in Leongatha, in the state of Victoria.
She was also found guilty of attempting to murder Ian, Heather’s husband. — AFP
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