The 50-year-old's in-laws died in 2023 after eating beef Wellingtons prepared by Patterson - they were later found to contain toxic mushrooms.

An Australian woman has been found guilty of murdering three relatives and attempting to murder another by feeding them a lunch laced with death cap mushrooms, bringing to a close a two-month trial replete with family drama,

An Australian woman was on Monday convicted of murdering three elderly relatives of her estranged husband with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, and attempting to murder a fourth, in a case that gripped the country.