{"id":26465,"date":"2023-11-02T05:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T09:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=26465"},"modified":"2023-11-02T05:29:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T09:29:24","slug":"suspected-mushroom-poisoning-australian-woman-arrested-over-three-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/11\/02\/suspected-mushroom-poisoning-australian-woman-arrested-over-three-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected mushroom poisoning: Australian woman arrested over three deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Australian woman has been arrested over the suspected mushroom poisoning deaths of three people.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The trio had fallen ill after attending a family lunch in the Victorian town of Leongatha in July. A fourth person was taken to hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The woman who served the lunch, Erin Patterson, was taken into custody on Thursday. She has not been charged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Patterson, 49, has strongly maintained she is innocent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Victoria Police said the woman would be interviewed by detectives and a search warrant had been executed at her house.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Homicide squad Inspector Dean Thomas stressed the complexity of the case in a press conference, describing it as a tragedy that may “reverberate for years to come”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I cannot think of another investigation that has generated this level of media and public interest, not only here in Victoria, but also nationally and internationally,” he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gail and Don Patterson – the parents of Ms Patterson’s ex-husband – were guests at the lunch along with Gail Patterson’s sister Heather Wilkinson and her brother-in-law Ian Wilkinson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The four were taken to hospital on 30 July reporting violent illness, police say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Within days the Patterson couple, both 70, and Ms Wilkinson, 66, had died. Mr Wilkinson, 68, later recovered after two months of treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“This milestone marks a moment of immense relief and gratitude for Ian and the entire Wilkinson family,” his loved ones said in a statement in September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Erin Patterson has said she herself was taken to hospital after the meal due to stomach pains, and was put on a saline drip and given medication to guard against liver damage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She has said she served a beef wellington pie using a mixture of button mushrooms bought from a supermarket, and dried mushrooms purchased at an Asian grocery months earlier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I am now devastated to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness suffered by my loved ones,” she wrote in a statement in August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I really want to repeat that I had absolutely no reason to hurt these people, whom I loved.”<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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