The Briefing
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THE SENTENCE: Two-minute mushroom trial recap
2 minutes Posted Sep 8, 2025 at 1:09 am.
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Erin Patterson has been charged with the murders of three relatives and the attempted murder of another; after allegedly serving up a beef Wellington dish laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms at a lunch at her home in 2023.  

In this special series of The Briefing, Helen Smith unpacks the sentence in under two minutes.  

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