Intensive care doctor says murder convict’s lunch guests were ‘certainly the sickest patients in the whole state’

The fact she had no clear motive was central to her defence team’s arguments. Patterson, who foraged wild mushrooms in her spare time and also ate the beef wellington, claimed that the event was a tragic accident.

After a nine-week trial, Erin Patterson has been found guilty of the murder of her parents-in-law and an aunt, who died days after she served them a beef wellington for lunch.