Judgment day for Erin Patterson: Mushroom killer to learn if she gets a new trial – or faces dying behind bars

It’s judgment day for murderer Erin Patterson who will soon learn whether she will be retried over a deadly mushroom lunch.

The convicted killer is not expected to be in the courtroom when three Victorian Court of Appeal judges hand down their decision on Friday morning.

She will instead watch the ruling remotely from the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, the prison in Melbourne‘s west where she is currently serving a life sentence.

The 52-year-old claims she suffered a substantial miscarriage of justice when a jury found her guilty of murdering her lunch guests.

Jurors believed she deliberately served beef Wellingtons laced with death cap

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