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Global News Podcast

Australian woman guilty of murder in toxic mushroom trial

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Australian Erin Patterson guilty of murdering three relatives with a beef wellington laced with death cap mushrooms. Also: 20 years since the London 7/7 bombings, and the latest on rescue efforts after Texas floods.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.5

I'm Will Vernon and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 7th of July, these are our main stories.

0:12.2

A conviction for Erin Patterson, the Australian woman who murdered her relatives with poisonous mushrooms.

0:18.3

Tear gas and roadblocks in the Kenyan capital as pro-democracy protesters

0:22.0

take to the streets. And memorial services in London, marking 20 years since the 7-7 suicide

0:28.7

bomb attacks on the capital. Also in this podcast? For so long I felt like it was more important

0:37.4

to belong to others than to belong to myself.

0:40.1

How people who call themselves third culture kids are using food, art and writing to reclaim who they are.

0:50.3

It was a murder trial that fascinated Australia and the world.

0:54.9

Erin Patterson was accused of killing her relatives with a beef Wellington,

0:59.0

laced with death-cap mushrooms.

1:01.2

The key question, did Ms. Patterson poison her lunch guests on purpose,

1:05.7

or, as she claimed, by accident?

1:08.1

In a unanimous verdict today, a jury decided it was deliberate, finding her

1:13.1

guilty of the murder of her in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson,

1:19.7

guilty too of attempted murder of Gail's husband, the only survivor. Following the verdict, the judge

1:26.0

released dozens of exhibits used during the trial.

1:29.3

They included CCTV footage, which showed Ms. Patterson disposing of a food dehydrator,

1:35.1

containing traces of mushrooms at a local dump days after the deaths. Well, moments after the

1:41.3

verdicts were handed down, Detective Inspector Dean Thomas from Victoria Police, who led the murder investigation, made this plea.

1:49.2

It's very important that we remember that three people have died and we've had a person that nearly died and was seriously injured as a result and that has led to these charges. I ask that we acknowledge those people

2:04.0

and not forget them. Well, the BBC's Shy McHaleel was in the courtroom in the small town of

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