{"id":181562,"date":"2025-09-08T11:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=181562"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:56:11","slug":"poisonous-mushrooms-for-family-lunch-australian-woman-kills-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/181562\/","title":{"rendered":"Poisonous mushrooms for family lunch: Australian woman kills relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Australian Erin Patterson has been sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years for poisoning three of her relatives, the BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

She was convicted in July for killing three relatives and trying to kill another at a family lunch in 2023, where she served them beef Wellingtons laced with toxic death cap mushrooms.<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old showed little emotion throughout Monday’s hearing, our correspondent writes, keeping her eyes closed for the most part and opening them only as the judge read out her sentence.<\/p>\n

As noted, Erin Patterson’s motive remains a mystery.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian Erin Patterson has been sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years for poisoning three of her relatives, the BBC writes. She was convicted in July for killing three relatives and trying to kill another at a family lunch in 2023, where she served them beef Wellingtons laced with toxic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":181498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181563,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181562\/revisions\/181563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}