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Breaking: 33 years for mushroom killer Erin Patterson · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's headlines. Aaron Patterson will spend at least thirty
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  Speaker 1: three years in prison for murdering three elderly relatives and
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  Speaker 1: attempting to murder another at a family lunch in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. Justice Christopher Biale has given Patterson three life
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  Speaker 1: sentences for murder and twenty five years for attempted murder,
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  Speaker 1: to be served Concurrently, He set a non parole period
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  Speaker 1: of thirty three years because Patterson is effectively serving her
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  Speaker 1: time in solitary confinement, and the judge said therefore deserved
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  Speaker 1: some clemency. Patterson has already served two years in custody,
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  Speaker 1: meaning she will be eligible for release in twenty fifty six,
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  Speaker 1: by which time she will be eighty one years old.
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  Speaker 2: I have no hesitation in finding that your offending falls
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  Speaker 2: into the worst category for the offenses of murder and
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  Speaker 2: attempted murder. The gravity of your offending warrants the imposition
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  Speaker 2: of the maximum penalties for your crimes. You maintain your innocence.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, there is no evidence of remorse. All
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  Speaker 2: sentences are to be served concurrently. The total effective sentence
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  Speaker 2: is life imprisonment and I fix a non parole period
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  Speaker 2: of thirty three years.
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  Speaker 1: The fifty year old mother of two was convicted in
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  Speaker 1: July of poisoning her in laws Don and Gail Patterson
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  Speaker 1: and Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson with death cap mushrooms, which
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  Speaker 1: she served to her guests in toxic parcels of beef Wellington.
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  Speaker 1: Heather Wilkinson's husband, Pastor Ian Wilkinson, was the sole survivor
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  Speaker 1: and was present in court for her sentencing by Justice Biel.
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  Speaker 1: A top at Lassian executive, is leaving the tech giant
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  Speaker 1: after founder and CEO Mike cannon Brooks backflipped on his
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  Speaker 1: promise to make her the new chief executive. The resignation
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  Speaker 1: of Arnou Barradwadge as Atlasian's president is the latest in
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  Speaker 1: a long line of departures since KO under Scott Farquhar
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  Speaker 1: left in twenty twenty four. Check out those stories live
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  Speaker 1: right now at the Australian dot Com do AU and
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  Speaker 1: come back to the front first thing in the morning
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  Speaker 1: for all the details of Justice Beal's reasoning.