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

‘I encourage all commentators to engage their brains before they open their mouths,’ judge said

Victim walked into service station covered in dirt in 2024, say detectives who allege offenders responsible for another kidnapping and also murder of Rich Choup

A long-time drug user will be sentenced for murdering a man he accused of being a pedophile, but the killing was not an act of vigilantism, his lawyer says.

A 46-year-old man has appeared in court after being accused of murdering a police officer who was attending a property to deliver a home repossession order.

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

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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.