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Australian mushroom killer Erin Patterson loses appeal, faces harsher sentence

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Erin Patterson, convicted of murdering three people with poisoned beef Wellington, has lost her appeal against her convictions. The Court of Appeal in Victoria upheld her guilty verdict and imposed a harsher sentence, deeming the murders "extraordinarily cold and calculated." Patterson had argued her convictions were a miscarriage of justice and sought a retrial. AI

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Australian mushroom killer Erin Patterson loses appeal, faces harsher sentence

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Agence France-Presse ·

    Australian mushroom killer Erin Patterson likely to die in jail after failed appeal

    Australian mushroom murderer Erin Patterson lost a bid to overturn her convictions and had a harsher sentence imposed on Friday, failing to prove she was wrongfully jailed for killing three people with a poisoned lunch. Patterson was found guilty last year of murdering her husban…

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