Patterson, 50, was charged with murdering three relatives of her estranged husband by serving a beef Wellington laced with toxic mushrooms over lunch in 2023.

Australian woman Erin Patterson has been found guilty of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives, who died after she deliberately served them poisonous mushrooms for lunch.

It found Ms Patterson guilty on three counts of murder and one of attempted murder. The case has gripped Australia with its compelling mixture of tortured family drama and, the jury has decided, elaborate murder plot,