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Speaker 1: Oh Well talked about it. The mushroom trial in Australia,

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Speaker 1: mushroom cook Aaron Patterson has been found guilty on all

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Speaker 1: charges in her murder trial. The jury took a week

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Speaker 1: to come to a decision, but found her ultimately guilty

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Speaker 1: of the murder of her in laws, Gail and Donald

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Speaker 1: Patterson and Heather Wilkinson. The dinner's guest's blood was coursing

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Speaker 1: with amatoxin, are deadly poison produced by the death cap

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Speaker 1: mushrooms nine to sprout under oak trees of Victoria. So Don, Gale,

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Speaker 1: and Heather died of organ failure, all within a week.

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Speaker 1: Now for more on this, we've got Donna Tomay on

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Speaker 1: the LAN. Good morning to your.

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Speaker 2: Donna, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: People said that jury took quite a long time, a

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Speaker 1: whole week. What was that.

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Speaker 2: About, Well, there a lot to take as long as

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Speaker 2: they want. So it was about a week of deliberations

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Speaker 2: for the jury, seven men and five women, and they

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Speaker 2: ultimately found the fifty year old guilty of murdering the

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Speaker 2: in laws that you just mentioned here, Donal and Gale

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Speaker 2: Patterson and Heather Wilkinson. Heather was Gail's sister, younger sister

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Speaker 2: so Don Gale, aged seventy head a sixty six years

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Speaker 2: old and had his husband in Wilkinson was the sole

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Speaker 2: survivor of that that lunch. He was not in court

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Speaker 2: on the day of the verdict when it was delivered yesterday.

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Speaker 2: We know that Simon Patterson, the estranged husband of Aaron,

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Speaker 2: was invited to that lunch, you might recall, but he

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Speaker 2: uncomfortable yes about about attending. So there you go. Take

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Speaker 2: take that with interest. But you know, each day, for

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Speaker 2: more than two months, every seat at that tiny courthouse

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Speaker 2: more wells La Trow Valley law courts in regional Touria

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Speaker 2: were filled. And we heard that some people were so

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Speaker 2: fascinated by this case that, you know, the general public

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Speaker 2: were telling stories that you know, so they gave up

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Speaker 2: work and they would get there super early to sit

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Speaker 2: in on in court and watch this unfold, watch this

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Speaker 2: trial unfold.

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Speaker 1: Look it's the same here. Don't worry. Everybody's fascinated here,

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Speaker 1: and of course the passions are high. So the people

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Speaker 1: that thought she was guilty thought she was guilty and

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Speaker 1: thought it would only take everybody twenty minutes to come

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Speaker 1: up with the decision. That's why one week was quite interesting.

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Speaker 1: What can we expect for sentencing, Well.

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Speaker 2: The sentencing data is yet to be determined. But ultimately

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Speaker 2: Aaron Patterson's legal team can appeal. There's a lodge appeal

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Speaker 2: can be lodged, and I should say she has twenty

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Speaker 2: eight days to begin the process of lodging an appeal

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Speaker 2: according to the Supreme Court of Australia, So her legal

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Speaker 2: team can consider that either to appeal the guilty verdict itself,

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Speaker 2: the sentence which we don't know what it is yet,

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Speaker 2: or both. Now the grounds for appeal you might be interested.

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Speaker 2: The most common ground is that the verdict was unsatisfactory

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Speaker 2: or unreasonable and the Court of appeal might find that

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Speaker 2: it just wasn't sufficient to justify a conviction. So interesting

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Speaker 2: that you might note also that no motion was ever

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Speaker 2: provided to the court. I found that fascinating. But the

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Speaker 2: prosecutors described Erin Paterson as a duplicitous liar who prepared

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Speaker 2: a meal with murderous intent. He showed no emotion when

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Speaker 2: the guilty verdict was handed down. By the way, that

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Speaker 2: was a.

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Speaker 1: Very good sentence to prisitus liar who showed murderous Intent

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