Australian prosecutors filed an appeal on Monday, guaranteed for a long guarantee jail period Erin PattersonWho was sentenced to life to the relatives of her four husbands for poisoning the death cap mushroom, but will be eligible for parole after 33 years.
Victoria The office of public lawyers of the state said in a statement that it had filed an appeal Victorian The Court of Appeal, claiming the sentence submitted to Patterson a month ago, was “manifested inadequate.”
Patterson was sentenced to jail in jail by the Victorian Supreme Court in a jail for killing three people and attempted to kill a fourth, all of whom were lunch guests at his home in 2023.
Patterson fed them beef Wellington Pastry dishes with toxic mushrooms. That motive remains a mystery.
The prosecutors argued last month that he should never be eligible for parole. His lawyers asked Patterson to serve 30 years ago, before he could be considered for the initial release.
Justice Christopher Belle set a non-parole period of 33 years, meaning that it could be potentially free at the age of 82 in 2056.
Patterson’s lawyer Richard Edney told Belle last week that she would appeal against her jury sentence within a month.
Three courts of appeal judges will hear both appeals on one date which has not been determined yet.
Patterson was convicted in July of killing her husband Simon Patterson’s parents Don and Gayle Patterson. He also killed Gayle’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, and attempted to assassinate her, who spent Ian Wilkinson a week in a hospital.
Simon Patterson was also invited for lunch but refused.