"Guardian Australia has confirmed that the appeal was lodged before deadline by Patterson's legal team, which now includes barristers Richard Edney and Veronika Drago. On 8 September, Patterson was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years for the murders of her estranged husband's parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and his aunt, Heather Wilkinson, and for attempting to murder Heather's husband, Ian Wilkinson, who survived the lunch after spending weeks in hospital."
"Your victims were all your relatives by marriage. More than that, they had all been good to you and your children over many years, as you acknowledged in your testimony. Not only did you cut short three lives and cause lasting damage to Ian Wilkinson's health, thereby devastating the extended Patterson and Wilkinson families, you inflicted untold suffering on your own children whom you robbed of their beloved grandparents."
Erin Patterson, 51, has filed an appeal against her conviction for killing three relatives by serving beef wellingtons laced with death cap mushrooms and will not appeal her sentence. The appeal was lodged before the deadline by her legal team, which now includes barristers Richard Edney and Veronika Drago. Patterson was convicted in July after an 11-week trial in Morwell, Victoria, and maintained her innocence, claiming she had not intended to serve the poisoned meal in July 2023. On 8 September she received life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years, and Ian Wilkinson survived but spent weeks in hospital.
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