Overview

• A jury in the Victorian Supreme Court delivered unanimous guilty verdicts on three murder counts and one attempted murder count after a ten-week trial that drew over 250 journalists.
• Patterson wept in the dock when video of her children’s police interviews was played, marking her only visible emotional reaction during proceedings.
• Prosecutors relied on death cap mushroom residue found in a discarded dehydrator, factory resets on Patterson’s phone and web search histories to prove deliberate poisoning.
• Her mortgaged $1.2 million Leongatha home has been tied up by legal fees, prompting questions over asset seizure and possible compensation for the victims’ families.
• Patterson has maintained her innocence and her defense team has 28 days to lodge an appeal ahead of her mandatory life-sentence hearing later this year.