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Australia's mushroom killer to spend at least 33 years in prison

Sydney, Sept 8 (UNI) An Australian woman who fatally poisoned three members of her family with mushrooms will spend at least 33 years in prison after being handed a life sentence on Monday.
Justice Christopher Beale in the Supreme Court of the state of Victoria on Monday sentenced 50-year-old Erin Patterson to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years for the 2023 murders of three people, and attempted murder of a fourth.
A jury in July found that Patterson had deliberately served a lunch containing toxic death cap mushrooms to the four guests at her home in the town of Leongatha, 115 km southeast of Melbourne, on July 29, 2023.
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