{"id":59741,"date":"2026-08-30T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T16:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australia-mushroom-murder-catastrophic-hotel-mix-up-at-the-heart-of-appeal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T16:08:11","slug":"australia-mushroom-murder-catastrophic-hotel-mix-up-at-the-heart-of-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australia-mushroom-murder-catastrophic-hotel-mix-up-at-the-heart-of-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia mushroom murder: &#8216;Catastrophic&#8217; hotel mix-up at the heart of appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s mushroom murderer Erin Patterson attended a hearing via video link from prison on Wednesday as her lawyers argued her conviction was undermined by a &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; mix-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They say the trial had been compromised as the jury were placed in the same hotel as some prosecutors and a key witness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patterson is serving a life sentence after killing three of her relatives and trying to kill another by serving them a beef Wellington containing death cap mushrooms at her Victoria home in 2023. She has always maintained it was an accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her lawyers also argued some evidence in the trial was too speculative and that evidence crucial to their own case was wrongfully excluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC&#8217;s Australia Correspondent, Katy Watson, talks through what happened in court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c9v4ze2dpdjo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s mushroom murderer Erin Patterson attended a hearing via video link from prison on Wednesday as her lawyers argued her conviction was undermined by a &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; mix-up. They say the trial had been compromised as the jury were placed in the same hotel as some prosecutors and a key witness. Patterson is serving a life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3529,409,16518,1476,2067,9483,880,7391],"class_list":["post-59741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-appeal","tag-australia","tag-catastrophic","tag-heart","tag-hotel","tag-mixup","tag-murder","tag-mushroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59743,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59741\/revisions\/59743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}