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Erin Patterson’s husband says he feared estranged wife would poison him

Erin Patterson's estranged husband Simon did not go to a toxic mushroom lunch at her home as he believed she'd been trying to poison him, it can be revealed.

Supreme Court of Victoria releases images of death cap mushrooms on dehydrator mesh and convict disposing of appliance

'Special treatment' in her cell, photo bans, media contempt threats, death stares and Simon Patterson's requests: what the mushroom trial jury didn't hear.

Evidence presented in the mushroom murder trial shows the dining table used in the fateful lunch and social media chats

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

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.

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

Over more than two months the court heard details of a meal of beef wellingtons that contained death cap mushrooms and killed three