Overview
- Patterson’s appeal was lodged and accepted by the Victorian Court of Appeal on November 3, with her legal grounds yet to be disclosed.
- Her challenge targets the guilty verdicts from July 2025 for three murders and one attempted murder stemming from the 2023 Leongatha lunch.
- Guardian Australia reports she is not appealing her sentence, which was set in September at life imprisonment with a 33-year non-parole period.
- Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions has separately appealed the sentence as manifestly inadequate, arguing the judge erred by factoring likely long-term isolation.
- Both the conviction appeal and the prosecution’s sentencing appeal are expected to be heard together in 2026, and Patterson remains in protective custody at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.