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Speaker 1: So after a week of deliberating, we've got the verdict

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Speaker 1: in the mushroom chef case. Aaron Patterson was guilty of

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Speaker 1: murdering her three and laws and then guilty of the

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Speaker 1: attempted murder of the pastor Leslie Yeomans is Our Australia

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Speaker 1: corresponding with us now.

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Speaker 2: Hey Leslie, good morning, Heather.

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Speaker 1: Given that she was so emotionless in court when the

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Speaker 1: verdict came out, do you think she saw this coming?

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Speaker 2: Well, you would have to think that there was some

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Speaker 2: advice given to her by her legal team that this

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Speaker 2: was a strong possibility. Three people left dead and one

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Speaker 2: person who'd spent some time in hospital. The people who

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Speaker 2: were showing emotion though, were her friends who were outside court,

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Speaker 2: who was saying that they were going to stick by her.

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Speaker 2: But Aaron Patterson herself, she must have been aware that

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Speaker 2: this was not going to look very good.

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Speaker 1: Why did jury take so long?

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Speaker 2: Do you think, Well, there was a lot to get through.

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Speaker 2: I guess after a ten week trial there were there

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Speaker 2: were around fifty prosecution witnesses that they had to get through.

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Speaker 2: There was a lot of evidence for them to be

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Speaker 2: sort of reviewing and going over the fact that the

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Speaker 2: fact that Aaron Patterson had lied about things like the

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Speaker 2: food dehydrator that she'd purchased and then had disposed of.

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Speaker 2: There was footage of her at the waste disposal center

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Speaker 2: of the tip where she was disposing of that that

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Speaker 2: had told had told authorities that she'd never had one

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Speaker 2: of those things. There was the fact that also that

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Speaker 2: the recipe that she'd used for that beef wellington, that

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Speaker 2: she'd actually deviated from the recipe and she'd made individual

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Speaker 2: small beef wellingtons rather than go with the recipe as

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Speaker 2: a whole, and she'd served them up on different colored

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Speaker 2: plates when she was serving that meal. So there was

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Speaker 2: a lot of sort of a lot of detail for them,

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Speaker 2: I guess, to get through before they had to before

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Speaker 2: they had to sort of reach that verdict.

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Speaker 1: What's the possible sentence for her?

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Speaker 2: Possible sentence is life? How long is that Lifetically, look

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Speaker 2: at three people are deceased and there's one attempted murder.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know, to be honest with you. Life

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Speaker 2: could be, you know, fifty plus years, it could be twenty.

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Speaker 2: Who knows. That would be up to the sentencing judge.

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Speaker 2: She'll be back in court possibly at the end of

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Speaker 2: the year for that pre sentence hearing. But she's got

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Speaker 2: twenty eight days or illegal team's got twenty eight days

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Speaker 2: to appeal the verdict. So we'll just have to wait

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Speaker 2: for the next month or so to see if they're

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Speaker 2: actually going to an appeal, which you would likely sort

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Speaker 2: of assume that that would be what would happen.

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Speaker 1: Lislie, it's very good to talk to you. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciated Lizzie Yeoman's Australia correspondent. I'm not sure if this

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Speaker 1: is true or not, but it is being reported. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to tell disclosure. It's being reported by the Daily Mail.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying I'm not sure, okay, but this

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Speaker 1: is what is being reported apparently on who. She's been

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Speaker 1: kept at the Dame Phyllis Frost Center in Melbourne's West

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Speaker 1: and on her weekly trips back there, quote Patterson had

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Speaker 1: come to loathe the chicken Cutchia Tory meals provided to

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Speaker 1: her because the dish had mushrooms in it, which is

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Speaker 1: a nice little twist of irony if it's true.

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