Melbourne, Australia (AP) – High-profile case The so -called death cap mushroom cook is likely to remain a topic of interactions across Australia for the coming years.
For more than two months, the Triple-Mr Sir Trial has attracted public attention with the details of Erin Patterson. Sarcasm The relatives of her three husbands deliberately had lunch of poisonous mushrooms,
It is not surprising that on Tuesday – a day after the court’s verdict in Victoria – the media website, social media and podcasts were scrambled to offer analysis to motivate him.
Patterson, 50, in the newspaper headlines described as a great killer with intoxicating characteristics. “Cold, mean and vicious,” read one.
Strict Australian court reporting laws banned anything that could shed gamblers in a trial. Some news outlets saved thousands of words waiting for the verdict: Patterson’s previous work history, behavior and psyche.
The coverage tried to convince why the mother of two carefully planned a deadly deadly lunch and wooed three people, saying she loves her death. Any certain answer, for now, remains a mystery.
She faces life in jail, in the latter after the sentence.
No motive
after a Nine-week Supreme Court trial In the state of Victoria, it took six days for the jury to convict Patterson. She was guilty of killing her parents, Dawn and Gayle Patterson, and Gayle’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, serving her with poisonous mushrooms to serve the lunch of beef wellington pastry.
She was also convicted of attempting to kill Heather’s husband, Ian Wilkinson, who survived food at Patterson’s house in the rural city Leongath in 2023.
Patterson denied the allegations and rescued that he had no reason to kill his beloved, elderly in -laws. But the jury disagreed and dismissed its claim that to include toxic mushrooms in the food Was a terrible accident,
The prosecutor Patterson failed to offer a motive for the offenses and was not required.
“People work differently for different reasons. Sometimes the reason for others is enough,” prosecutor Nanet Rogers told the jury. “In other times, internal motivations are known only by the individual.”
But Rogers indicated. At one point, the prosecutor read the horrific messages to Patterson, which he sent, who had exposed the previous friction with his in -laws and stress with her husband, which was invited for lunch, but did not go.
“You had two faces,” said Rogers. Patterson denied this.
‘He had a dilemma’
With the convict decisions, but there is no proven reason that Australian news outlets published speculation on Tuesday.
“What was the purpose of Arin Patterson on Earth?” Australian newspaper editorial director Claire Harvey asked in a column. Harvey pointed to a change in the killer’s relationship with her husband.
Cris Webster was the first medical doctor to talk to Patterson after his four lunch guests were hospitalized and testified in testing. He told reporters on Tuesday that he was convinced that he deliberately poisoned his victims when he lied to buying mushrooms served from a major supermarket series.
Webster told nine network television, “He had a dilemma and the solution he chose is Sociopathic.”
No feeling displayed
The scorn outline for Patterson reflects a national passion with the case and a comprehensive approach that he was not a sympathetic person.
It was an opinion that Australians did not need to legally express in the media or to ensure a fair hearing before the online test ended. But newspapers no longer need to be caught back.
Under the headline “Death Cap Stare”, age explained how “Killer Cook” learned his fate, but staring at the jury, he gave his verdict.
The front page of the Herald Sun newspaper of Melbourne shouted: “Cook,” Paarson’s labeling “Evil Erin” and “Cold-Bladed Killer.”
During the test, Patterson chose to testify in his own defense, a risky strategy in the Australian justice system and one that most observers said that it did not serve him well. She used to jokingly many times and used to combine with the prosecutor.
Journalist John Ferguson, who won a Melbourne Press Club Award to break the deadly lunch story, said Patterson often cried or came close to tears during his test. But when he was convicted, he did not display any feeling, he noted.
Ferguson wrote on Australian Tuesday, “Everything that the court found on Monday was full arin. The cold, mean and vicious,” Ferguson wrote on Australian Tuesday.
Drama series, documentaries and books
The verdict also inspired an online frenzy among the Australians, many of which replaced civil detectives during the test.
By late night on Monday night, the post had drawn thousands of comments with a black humor about the decision on local redit pages, including photos taken in memes, in-jokes, and local supermarkets, where pre-pasted beef Wellington food was exempted.
The attraction about the case will be willing. A play chain, documentary and books are planned, all of them are likely to try to answer the question of what Patterson is inspired.
From the date of the sentence, the lawyers of Patterson will have 28 days to appeal.
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Graham-Maikle reported from Wellington, New Zealand.
Rod McGirk and Charlotte Graham-Mack, Associated Press
