Australia's mushroom killer has failed to overturn her murder convictions on appeal, with the court also ruling that she never be released from prison. Erin Patterson, 52, was found guilty of murdering three relatives and attempting to kill another when she served them a toxic mushroom-laced meal in 2023. Her life sentence included a non-parole period of 33 years. In Victoria's Court of Appeal on Friday, three judges threw out her appeal against her convictions and agreed with the prosecution that her sentence was inadequate, as it allowed for the possibility of freedom. Patterson's crimes were "extraordinarily cold and calculated" and had to be "denounced in the strongest terms," they said.
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