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Speaker 1: Mushroom murderer. Aaron Patterson has been found guilty on all

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Speaker 1: counts this afternoon. This after deliberation of more than a

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Speaker 1: week by the jury. They found her guilty the murder

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Speaker 1: of Gail and Donald Patterson, her in laws, and Heather

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Speaker 1: Wilkinson guilty. Also the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson, Heather's husband,

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Speaker 1: who survived after being in a coma. Aziz Al Saphine

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Speaker 1: is One News Australia correspondent with US tonight as these

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Speaker 1: how did that go down in the court?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Kelder Ryan look att has been quite a hectic day.

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Speaker 2: I can tell you that much as those charges were

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Speaker 2: read out, Aaron Patterson sat there quite neutral faced as

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Speaker 2: she heard her fate. And look, it has been a

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Speaker 2: bit of a I suppose media circus. A lot of

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Speaker 2: people would have described. There has been media from all

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Speaker 2: around the world covering this case. I spent a lot

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Speaker 2: of time in more Will in the past couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: I can tell you it has been an interesting case

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Speaker 2: to cover. That luck. Yes, she has been found guilty

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Speaker 2: on all charges, those three murder charges and that one

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Speaker 2: attempted murder charge. Now, when those charges were read out,

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Speaker 2: When the verdict was read out, Justice Bhl of course

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Speaker 2: had thanked the jury, apologizing that this case has gone

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Speaker 2: on for as long as it has. I'll remind you

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Speaker 2: it was only put down for six weeks. We are

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Speaker 2: now in its ninth eleventh week, and so he apologized

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Speaker 2: to the jury, but really just thanked them for their service.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's been one hundred and twenty five pieces

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Speaker 2: of evidence that have been put forward to them, that

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Speaker 2: had to analyze an eighty six page chronology of all

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Speaker 2: the testimony it's happened in the past ten weeks, and

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Speaker 2: so as you can imagine, a really big responsibility for

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Speaker 2: this jury to get it right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they've certainly come to a decision, though it

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Speaker 1: took them a while. There were a few slam dunk arguments,

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Speaker 1: you know, there was a different colored plates, there was

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Speaker 1: the throwing the dehydrator away. In the end, jury obviously

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Speaker 1: finding this stuff pretty convincingsolutely.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. So Nanette Rogers for the prosecution essentially

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Speaker 2: based the case on what she called the four deceptions,

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Speaker 2: the four core deceptions that Aaron Patterson took part in

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Speaker 2: and what ultimately was a sustained cover up. The first

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Speaker 2: of course, being about lying about having cancer, and that

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Speaker 2: is essentially Rottennette Rodgers said Aaron Patterson did to law

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Speaker 2: her family in to that lunch on July twenty nine,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. She said that Aaron Patterson tried to

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Speaker 2: gain sympathy in that act and as well as law

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Speaker 2: of them. Really just get them all there in one

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Speaker 2: one spot. Now, the second deception that she talked about,

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Speaker 2: as you mentioned, was where the mushrooms came from? Now?

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Speaker 2: During her testimony, and I'll remind you, Aaron Patterson herself

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Speaker 2: took the stand, which she didn't need to for eight

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Speaker 2: days in the witness box, and she talked to out

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Speaker 2: she was asked about rather where the mushrooms came from? Now.

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Speaker 2: Sally and Atkinson was the health official that was tasked

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Speaker 2: with investigating this particular this particular part of the story

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Speaker 2: after the lunch, and what she said in her testimony

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Speaker 2: was that Aaron Patterson was really hard to get a

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Speaker 2: hold of that. When she did get a hold of her,

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Speaker 2: her story kept changing. And you might remember she said

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Speaker 2: she gave multiple accounts of where these mushrooms came from,

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Speaker 2: at one point mentioning an Asian grosser couldn't mention it

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Speaker 2: by name and then changing it to a supermarket, a

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Speaker 2: Woolli's of sorts. And so the problem with that was

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Speaker 2: what Sally Anne Atkinson talked about in the trial was

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Speaker 2: that it created, you know, a public health scare, and

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Speaker 2: so they were worried that there were potentially these mushrooms

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Speaker 2: in the supermarkets that were getting other people sick, and

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Speaker 2: so that was that was really part of her testimony.

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Speaker 2: The third, as you also mentioned, is the third dehydrator.

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Speaker 2: So initially Aaron Patterson told police she ever owned one

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Speaker 2: and then later admitted to dumping it after there was

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Speaker 2: evidence presented in court of CCTV of a woman dumping

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Speaker 2: a food dehydrator in court, which, by the way, later

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Speaker 2: tested for deathcap mushrooms. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Never a great look is it. He's a fascinating case

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Speaker 1: that we have followed closely, just very quickly. How long

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Speaker 1: could she get.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this could be life in prison, So with that,

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Speaker 2: I think it's around forty five to fifty years and

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Speaker 2: in victoria. But look, we just don't know what could happen.

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Speaker 2: There might be an appeals process. The court is going

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Speaker 2: to convene tomorrow and then we'll find out what happens

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Speaker 2: after that, whether there's any when sentencing could be and

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Speaker 2: of course I'll remind you as well that is of

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Speaker 2: course when the defense will come out and really make

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Speaker 2: a case for what kind of sentence Aaron Patterson will get.

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