Overview

• Victoria’s Office of Public Prosecutions has filed a sentencing appeal and released its grounds, describing the 33-year non‑parole period as manifestly inadequate.
• Acting DPP Diana Piekusis KC contends the judge erred in finding a substantial chance Erin Patterson would spend years in solitary confinement, skewing the decision to set a non‑parole period.
• Prosecutors will ask the Court of Appeal to order life without parole, saying it is in the public interest that Patterson never be released.
• Patterson was sentenced on September 8 to life with a 33-year minimum after a jury convicted her of three murders and one attempted murder tied to a 2023 Leongatha lunch that contained death cap mushrooms.
• Patterson maintains her innocence, has retained new barrister Richard Edney who has signalled a conviction appeal, and no appeal hearing dates have been listed.