Erin Patterson’s husband suspects she poisoned him before relatives were killed with toxic mushrooms

Simon Patterson, husband of Erin Patterson, testified at a pretrial hearing that he had declined Erin's lunch invitation out of fear. Share Save for later Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account

The husband of a woman convicted of killing three people with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms suspected his wife had been poisoning him more than a year before the fatal meal, an Australian court has heard.

A judge on Friday lifted a gag order on pretrial evidence that triple murderer Erin Patterson, 50, had wanted kept secret while she attempts to overturn her convictions.

The evidence included the suspicions of Patterson’s estranged husband Simon Patterson that she had previously attempted to kill him.

Simon Patterson testified at a pretr