Jury in Australia's mushroom murder trial retires to consider verdict
The prosecution alleges that Erin Patterson served her husband's family death cap mushrooms in a Beef Wellington alongside mashed potatoes and green beans.
Defence team member of Erin Patterson, an Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband's elderly relatives with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, barrister Colin Mandy SC arrives at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts in Morwell, Australia, June 25, 2025. (photo credit: Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/Reuters)ByREUTERS