Melbourne, Australia — The estranged 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 Simon Patterson that she had previously attempted to kill him.

Simon Patterson testified at a pre-trial hearing that he had declined the lunch invitation out of fear.

"I thought there'd be a risk that she'd poison me if I attended," the estranged husband told the court months before the trial in testimony that wasn't presented to jurors

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