Courts
Surviving guest recalls becoming deathly ill following mushroom lunch
The town pastor who survived a poisoned mushroom lunch that killed three family members has recalled how he and his gravely ill wife were dramatically rushed through the corridors of a regional hospital after a local doctor learnt their sickness might be from death cap mushrooms and not simply gastro.
- Erin Pearson
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Erin Patterson told online friends her estranged husband was controlling and coercive, court told
The alleged mushroom cook killer also asked how to make beef Wellington in the weeks before the deadly lunch, members of a true crime chat group told the court on Monday.
- Erin Pearson
Murder charge against man accused of killing gangland lawyer dropped
Vincenzo Crupi has left court a free man after a prosecution in which he was accused of murdering Joseph “Pino” Acquaro in Brunswick in 2016 was abandoned.
- Melissa Cunningham and Chris Vedelago
Revolver groper avoids jail after he was caught on CCTV assaulting 18 women
The judge found David Rayan’s risk of reoffending was low despite saying the 34-year-old lacked insight into his “brazen” offending.
- Tara Cosoleto
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- Domestic violence
‘Invisible victims’: Calls for reform as family violence system fails children
The nation’s leading family violence prevention advocates and experts have warned that vulnerable children are falling through cracks and desperately need their own tailored services.
- Grant McArthur
Simon Patterson wanted a strong household. A mushroom meal saw it all fall apart
Despite repeated separations over their eight-year marriage, Erin and Simon Patterson wanted to make their marriage work. A jury will now be left to pick over how it all came crashing down.
- Erin Pearson
Judge sheds tears as teen killer faces 13 years’ jail for stabbing schoolboy
In the moments before Pasawm Lyhym was murdered near a busy Melbourne train station he desperately tried to protect himself with a nearby shopping trolley.
- Melissa Cunningham
‘Very hurt’: How a belated birthday invitation to Erin Patterson sparked a family rift
Simon Patterson also told the court his estranged wife was “extremely aggressive” about child support in the months before the deadly mushroom lunch.
- Erin Pearson
‘I’ve spent a small fortune on beef Wellingtons’: Erin Patterson’s texts revealed
The accused killer mushroom cook urged her estranged husband to attend the fateful lunch because she’d spent “a small fortune” on eye fillet steak.
- Erin Pearson
Accused killer cook admits foraging for mushrooms, lying about dehydrator
What we learned about the prosecution’s case against the alleged killer mushroom cook on day one of the hotly anticipated trial.
- Erin Pearson
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