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Speaker 1: Oliver Peterson is with a six PR Perth Live presenter

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Speaker 1: with a verdict. We've had one this afternoon, just in

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Speaker 1: the last half hour. Aaron Patterson has been found guilty

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Speaker 1: of murder and Olli has all the details for us,

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Speaker 1: Ollie get a Ryan.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, she has guilty of the murder of her former

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Speaker 2: in laws Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister Heather,

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Speaker 2: and the attempted murder of Heather's husband, Ian Wilkinson. The

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Speaker 2: prosecution's case always said that Aaron Patterson liwit her in

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Speaker 2: laws to the lunch in the guise of a fake

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Speaker 2: cancer diagnosis. She deliberately put death cap mushrooms in the

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Speaker 2: mushroom lunch to poison them, but they were able to

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Speaker 2: never establish a motive. Now. The prosecution also argued during

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Speaker 2: the case that a phone from her home pinged in

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Speaker 2: the towns of Outram and Locke, and that's where the

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Speaker 2: death cap mushrooms had been cited in the months before.

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Speaker 2: A Pastorian Wilkinson, who was the sole survivor of the

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Speaker 2: four victims. He always claimed Patterson served the lunch to

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Speaker 2: her guests on four tan colored plates, but used a

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Speaker 2: gray plate for herself. She always refuted those particular claims,

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Speaker 2: with her defense team saying that it was a tragic

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Speaker 2: accident that she had told a series of lies to

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Speaker 2: her family and authorities because she panicked about her lunch

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Speaker 2: guests falling ill. She always maintained she never deliberately put

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Speaker 2: death cat mushrooms in the beef Wellington meal. But now,

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Speaker 2: during that verdict, as it was read down guilty as

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Speaker 2: I said there on the murder of the former in

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Speaker 2: law's Don and Gale Patterson, her sister Head and the

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Speaker 2: attempted murder of head Hiss husband Ian Wilkinson, she was

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Speaker 2: seen blinking a lot, breathing deeply as that jury found

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Speaker 2: her guilty on all the charges. She kept her eyes

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Speaker 2: open and peeled on that twelve person jury as they

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Speaker 2: left the room. And she'll now face a sentence ryan

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Speaker 2: of up to life in prison, and she'll return to

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Speaker 2: the court for a pre senate's hearing later this year.

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Speaker 2: But yes, breaking news, it's taken a while for that

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Speaker 2: jury to deliberate. It's taken a good week in a

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Speaker 2: couple of days after a nine week trial, guilty on

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Speaker 2: all three counts, and she's facing life behind bars, which

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Speaker 2: carries a maximum sentence of twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Holly, are you surprised.

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Speaker 2: Not at all. I'm more surprised that it took so long, Ryan,

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Speaker 2: for the jury to reach this guilty verdict. Having said that,

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Speaker 2: it was a nine week trial, so if you're going

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Speaker 2: through everything line by line, you can probably understand why

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Speaker 2: it took the jury what's seven or eight days to

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Speaker 2: actually come back with a guilty verdict, but unanimous and

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Speaker 2: on all of the charges guilty guilty, guilty, and attempted

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Speaker 2: murder guilty as well. So she'll have to prepare for

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Speaker 2: that pre sentencing hearing. And to be honest, I think

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of relief in the country Ryan. I

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Speaker 2: think we've all been holding our breath thinking it was

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Speaker 2: going this way and now we got the verdict to

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Speaker 2: match it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, as you said, I feel the same way.

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Speaker 1: Not surprised with what's happened, but surprised at the length

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Speaker 1: of time it took to get here. Hey, what's going

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Speaker 1: on with this anti hate task force being set up?

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Speaker 1: After weekend a text and an Israeli restaurant.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so a man was charged over that arson attack

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Speaker 2: on that sphynagogue in Melbourne. Z SI forced twenty people

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Speaker 2: inside the flee. So the Victorian Premier tot agency to

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Speaker 2: Allan's announced a new anti hate task for something which

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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister was ruling out over the weekend and

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Speaker 2: said it wasn't necessary. But the Victorian Premier says it

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Speaker 2: is on that attack and several other anti Semitic incidents

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Speaker 2: over the weekend, so it'll hold its first meeting and

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Speaker 2: discuss increasing police powers and enforcing anti vilification laws. That

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Speaker 2: meeting is expected to take place later this week, if

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Speaker 2: not the weekend. You've had the Premier of Victoria visiting

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Speaker 2: a synagogue this morning. You've even got the Opposition leader

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Speaker 2: Susan Lee. She's also been offering her support to the

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Anthony Albersi to try and stamp out this

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Speaker 2: anti semitism. As the PM said over the weekend, there

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Speaker 2: is no place for this in Australia. But I think

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Speaker 2: a lot of us in this country at the moment,

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Speaker 2: Ryan are just wondering what's going on in Victoria. Why

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Speaker 2: is Victoria almost a bit of an outlier in terms

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Speaker 2: of not just what's happening with anti Semitism, but a

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Speaker 2: lot of criminal activity. There's a lot of hate stemming

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Speaker 2: out of the southern capital of Australia. It might be

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Speaker 2: the sporting capital in Melbourne, but why is it that

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Speaker 2: Victoria is embroiled in all of this anti semitism. It

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Speaker 2: just seems to not sort of fit with the fabric

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Speaker 2: of what our country is at the moment. So there's

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Speaker 2: some pretty deep questions being asked in Australia today and

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Speaker 2: whether or not they're the government's too soft, whether they've

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Speaker 2: gone to woke, whether they've just got a toughen up,

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Speaker 2: have a no tolerance policy. So I think a lot

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Speaker 2: of questions are being asked of the state governor in

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Speaker 2: Victorian particular.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, OLLI very quickly before we go. This woman who's

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Speaker 1: had her arm bitten at the Queensland Zoo by a lion?

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Speaker 2: Was she?

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Speaker 1: And she was in the cage, wasn't she? But not

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Speaker 1: there as a as a guest.

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Speaker 2: No, she suffered that severe injury she was watching the

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Speaker 2: keepers working in the carnival enclosure. So I don't know

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Speaker 2: about you, but I don't even want to get too

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Speaker 2: close to a line. It's a terrible it's a terrible situation,

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Speaker 2: isn't It's been bitten by a lion? So she's going

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Speaker 2: to be going into further surgery today. It's understood she

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Speaker 2: has lost an arm, but she wasn't quite in the enclosure,

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Speaker 2: but she was watching watching those zoo keepers with the lions.

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Speaker 2: Maybe just step back a bit.

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Speaker 1: We just stay out of the cage. Hey, thanks, olly

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Speaker 1: good to have you on the show. OI Pedison six

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Speaker 1: PR Perth Live presenter, just confirming that guilty verdict for

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Speaker 1: Aaron Patterson on all counts over in Australia. For more

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