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The death cap mushroom case had all the hallmarks of a Shakespearean drama

Erin Patterson, 50, was judged to have deliberately laced beef wellington with death cap mushrooms.

Victorian supreme court jury convicts 50-year-old who cooked poisoned beef wellingtons that killed three in-laws

Guilty verdicts met with gasps from members of the public inside the packed courtroom in the Australian town of Morwell on Monday

Pictures first shown to the jury of the meal that contained death cap mushrooms have been released by the court

Australian Erin Patterson served a beef Wellington lunch that was "delicious" by all accounts, using eye fillet steak, flakey golden pastry, and the deadliest mushrooms known to man.

Patterson fed her former in-laws beef Wellingtons laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms, the jury’s verdict said.

After seven weeks of evidence, six days of summing up, and six and a half days of jury deliberation in the Victorian Supreme Court sitting in Morwell, Victoria, the verdict is finally in. Erin Patterson murdered her estranged husband’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, along with Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson.

Erin Patterson, 50, found guilty of murdering her estranged husband’s parents and aunt with poisonous mushrooms.