Prosecutors Appeal Erin Patterson’s ‘Inadequate’ Mushroom Murder Sentence
Prosecutors Appeal Erin Patterson’s ‘Inadequate’ Mushroom Murder Sentence Australian prosecutors have officially filed an appeal against the sentence handed down to Erin Patterson, the woman convicted of murdering three relatives with a toxic mushroom meal. The Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) confirmed on Monday, the appeal deadline, that they deem Patterson’s current sentence “manifestly inadequate.” Last month, Patterson, 51, received a life sentence with a non-parole period of 33 years for the deaths of her in-laws Don and Gail Patterson,…