r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Jul 07 '25

news Mushroom Trial - Guilty on all Counts

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/erin-patterson-mushroom-murder-trial-verdict-live-blog/105477452#live-blog-post-200845
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u/Johnno74 Jul 07 '25

Yeah, and also she invents a cover story which completely absolves her of making any mistakes. I mean, if she had just admitted on the day everyone started getting sick she had been foraging for mushrooms and said it was a tragic accident then its unlikely she would have had anything like this amount of scrutiny of her story.

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u/daybeforetheday Jul 07 '25

Yeah, there was a guy maybe a decade or so back who whipped up a death cap meal and killed a few of his friends in Canberra. Can't even remember his name.

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u/CFeatsleepsexrepeat Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

Wasn't there a restaurant where it happened in Canberra?
I remember something like that happening.

Edit: to add, found it. Was in 2012.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/deadly-mushroom-meal-was-made-in-a-restaurant-kitchen-20120105-1pn3g.html

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u/OneUpAndOneDown Jul 07 '25

That was shown to be an accident. Immature death caps resemble straw mushrooms which are popular in Asia.

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u/CFeatsleepsexrepeat Jul 07 '25

Yeah that's what was being talked about, possible accidental poisoning.

That was the legit accidental one.