Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.

I'm Tim Franks.

Every so often, you come across a court case which doesn't just seize the attention of the local community or even the country, but spills across the world. And so it's been the case with

the trial of a woman called Erin Patterson. She's the Australian mother of two school-aged

children, who today was found guilty of three counts of murder and one of attempted murder.

She was convicted of poisoning members of her estranged husband's family.

The 50-year-old had invited them to lunch two years ago and then knowingly served them toxic

mushrooms. The BBC Shama Khalil was in the courtroom in the small town of Morwell to hear

the verdict. What was really interesting about today was everyone had come in in the morning.

We'd all laid out our things.

And by lunch break, everybody felt safe to leave the media room, which is right next to the small

courtroom, to just go and grab something and come back.

And in the middle of that break, everyone's phones started pinging, including mine.

And it said Supreme Court, you know, and that they reached a verdict. And then the whole energy around that place changed him.

You could see cameramen running all around, people grabbing their jackets, their coats, everyone trying to get through security, climb those stairs, get in line to try and get

into that courtroom.

And obviously all of us journalists fighting for space because it's a small courtroom with,

you know, one side for the jury, you're faced by the judge on a higher platform.

And then Aaron is in the dock behind us.

So we all line up, most of us get in the room, and all that kerfuffle then turns into hushed tension.

It was so quiet in that courtroom.

You could hear a pin drop.

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