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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.

With each guilty verdict, Patterson looked straight at the jury, unflinching, her face unreadable

The “mushroom murder trial”, as it has popularly become known, has gripped Australia over the past 11 weeks. More than that, it’s prompted worldwide headlines, multiple daily podcasts, and even YouTube videos of self-proclaimed “body language experts” assessing defendant Erin Patterson’s every move.

The jury has handed down its verdict regarding the now famous beef Wellington meal at Patterson's Leongatha home, what happens next?

The much-publicised case around a deadly beef wellington lunch raises a number of legal issues

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.