Court of appeal is set to rule on the two appeals from 10am in the high profile Australian mushroom triple-murder case
Erin Patterson to learn if she could face retrial or longer jail term
The court of appeal is due to make its decision at 10am today . Our reporter, Nino Bucci , will be there and we’ll bring you updates as soon as they happen.
It could be a very quick ruling and over in a matter of minutes.
Patterson is not expected to attend the appeal decision in person.
Patterson’s lawyers argued seven grounds for appeal
In August, the court heard Erin Patterson should have been given no possibility of ever being released from prison, or a non-parole period so lengthy that she was likely to die behind bars.
Her lawyers argued seven grounds for her appeal, including that allowing jurors to stay in the same hotel as police and the prosecution while they deliberated over their verdicts in the triple murder trial represented a “catastrophic” failure of the justice system.
Erin Patterson , 52, was last year sentenced to life imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 33 years, for the murders of her estranged husband’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson , and his aunt Heather Wilkinson , after she hosted them for lunch.
Patterson was also convicted of the attempted murder of Heather’s husband, Ian Wilkinson , who survived the beef wellington laced with death cap mushrooms after spending weeks in hospital.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Erin Patterson’s bid for a retrial.
Patterson is set to find out if she could face a longer prison sentence or a new trial this morning, as Victoria’s highest court hands down its decision on two appeals regarding her triple murder case.
The court of appeal is set to rule on the two appeals from 10am, after justices Lesley Taylor, Stephen McLeish and Peter Kidd heard arguments from her legal team and prosecutors in August.
