A suburban Australian mom is standing trial on charges of poisoning several of her estranged husband's relatives with death cap mushrooms at a home-cooked meal — killing three of them — in a ...

Ms Patterson, 50, is facing trial over the alleged death cap mushroom poisonings of Simon Patterson’s parents and aunt and uncle at a lunch she hosted on July 29, 2023, at her Leongatha home.

Follow Daily Mail Australia's live coverage of accused mushroom chef Erin Patterson's murder trial here. Simon Patterson said he was aware of Erin's inheritance before they got married but ...

Simon, the estranged husband of mushroom cook Erin Patterson, has told the jury about the moment he turned down an invite to the lunch which ended up killing three members of his family.

The next day all four guests were hospitalised with symptoms of death cap mushroom poisoning, and later three of them died. Patterson was arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder over ...

Simon Patterson was invited to the fatal meal prepared by Erin Patterson - but decided not to attend the day before The estranged husband of a woman who served a poisonous mushroom lunch to her ...

SYDNEY, May 1 (Reuters) - The estranged husband of an Australian woman accused of murdering three of his elderly relatives with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms told a court on Thursday their ...

All four guests were hospitalized the next day with poisoning from death cap mushrooms, also known as amanita phalloides, that were added to the beef and pastry dish. Ian Wilkinson survived after ...

Prosecutors said the accused knowingly laced the meal with deadly death cap mushrooms at her home in Leongatha, a town of around 6,000 people some 135 kilometers (84 miles) from Melbourne.

A mother accused of murdering her estranged husband's parents and aunt by feeding them poisonous mushrooms lured them to the meal by faking a cancer diagnosis, prosecutors claim. Erin Patterson is ...

The Australian host of a weekend family lunch is on trial charged with murdering her estranged husband’s parents and an aunt and attempting to murder an uncle with poisonous mushrooms.