1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. She's in virtual solitary confinement in 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: Victoria's toughest women's prison, surrounded by terrorists, drug dealers and 4 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: child abusers. And now Aaron Patterson's confirmed what we all suspected. 5 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: She's not going to submit quietly. Patterson is famous around 6 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: the world as the Mushroom Murderer, the fifty one year 7 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: old country mum of two who was convicted earlier this 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: year of deliberately poisoning a homemade beef Wellington in order 9 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: to kill four of her husband's elderly relatives. Three of 10 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: them did die, her parents in law Don and Gale Patterson, 11 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: and her husband's aunt, Heather Wilkinson. One guest at the lunch, 12 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: Baptist pastor Ian Wilkinson, survived to give devastating evidence against 13 00:00:56,080 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: Aaron Patterson. Wilkinson is Patterson's uncle by married and he 14 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 1: offered her his forgiveness in a very moving victim impact statement. 15 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: Patterson also, according to the judge who sentenced her to 16 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: life imprisonment with a non parole period of thirty three years, 17 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,199 Speaker 1: wanted to kill her husband, Simon Patterson, but he declined 18 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: to attend the lunch at the last minute. Patterson has 19 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: always denied wrongdoing. She says the whole thing was a terrible, 20 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: tragic accident that she accidentally included death cap mushrooms from 21 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: her pantry in the meal, thinking they were harmless edible fungi. 22 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: These are the words of Christopher bial the sentencing judge 23 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: who sentenced Patterson to three life sentences to be served 24 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: concurrently plus twenty five years for the attempted murder of 25 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: Ian Wilkinson. Beale allowed us to broadcast this recording in September. 26 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 2: You maintain your innocence. In other words, there is no 27 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 2: evidence of remorse. You showed no pity for your victims. 28 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 2: Instead of informing those treating the Pattersons and Wilkinson's that 29 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 2: you had used forage mushrooms, which you could have done 30 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 2: without having to admit that you had deliberately poisoned their meals, 31 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 2: you repeatedly denied foraging, insisting that the mushrooms for the 32 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 2: beef wellingtons were so solely from Woolworth's and an Asian grocery. 33 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,679 Speaker 2: We will never know whether revealing the use of foraged 34 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 2: mushrooms would have made a difference. 35 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: Patterson's lawyers lodged papers with Victorian courts on Monday, indicating 36 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: she's appealing against the unanimous verdicts of the jury that 37 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: convicted her. You need grounds to get an appeal up 38 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: to prove that perhaps the jury was incorrectly instructed by 39 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: the judge, or that the trial was not conducted fairly. 40 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: We don't yet know exactly what Aaron Patterson's grounds of 41 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: appeal will be. During the trial, Justice Christopher Beale agreed 42 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: with her senior counsel Colin Mandy that several pieces of 43 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: evidence that the Crown wanted included against Patterson were potentially 44 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: prejudicial and should be hidden from the jury until after 45 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,079 Speaker 1: the verdict. We revealed these in The Australian after the 46 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: suppressions were lifted. Remember the cat post. The jury didn't 47 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 1: get to see that, but it was a social media 48 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: post the Crown says Patterson made before the Beef Wellington lunch, 49 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: in which she claimed her cat had ingested deathcap mushrooms 50 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: asking friends for advice. Turns out Patterson didn't have a cat. 51 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: It was also revealed after the verdict that Simon Patterson 52 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: believed Aaron had tried to kill him on numerous occasions 53 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: by poisoning his food. Again, Patterson has always denied wrongdoing. 54 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: There's another twist too. The Director of Public Prosecutions is 55 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: also appealing, saying Patterson's sentence was manifestly inadequate for the 56 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: gravity of her crimes. Check out that story live right 57 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: now at the Australian dot com dot a U and 58 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: come back to the front first thing in the morning.