Overview

• A jury in the Victoria Supreme Court found the 50-year-old guilty on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder for serving Amanita phalloides–tainted beef Wellington.
• Under Victorian law she faces life imprisonment without parole and will receive her sentence at a hearing scheduled in the coming weeks.
• Prosecutors relied on toxicology reports, expert mushroom analysis and digital forensics to establish that Patterson deliberately laced the roast with lethal fungi.
• The 11-week trial in Morwell bypassed a committal hearing and was widely described as the “trial of the century,” drawing intense media attention from Australia and abroad.
• Patterson maintains the poisoning was accidental and no clear motive has emerged for why the death-cap mushrooms were served.