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Today in Focus

Australia’s mushroom murder trial

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Justice and courts reporter Nino Bucci talks through the trial that has gripped Australia – of the woman accused of murdering three of her relatives with poisoned mushrooms over a family meal. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:08.6

Today, a beef Wellington, the death cap mushrooms,

0:12.3

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0:54.9

July 2023, in the small Australian town of Leon Gatha, a family get together for a meal, a beef Wellington.

1:12.4

And within days, it becomes national news.

1:16.3

Gail Patterson and her husband Don visited their former daughter-in-law at her home for a family

1:22.5

lunch. Joining them was Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson and husband Ian.

1:28.2

That night all four fell ill.

1:31.4

It quickly gets much worse.

1:34.1

Three people are dead and one man is fighting for his life this morning

1:37.1

after he suspected mushroom poisoning in South Gippsland in Victoria.

1:42.1

The beef Wellington.

1:43.3

It contained death cap mushrooms, the deadliest in the world.

1:47.3

The former daughter-in-law of two of the deceased has been quizzed by police in a case

1:52.5

that has left detectives baffled.

1:55.8

Focus shifts to one woman in particular, a survivor of the meal, the one who cooked it, Erin Patterson.

2:03.3

Police say you're a suspect. Do you have anything to say about that? Yes, I say I didn't do

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