Australian woman Erin Patterson, who was found guilty of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives by deliberately serving them poisonous mushrooms for lunch , allegedly tried to murder her husband by using poisoned pasta, chicken curry and a sandwich wrap.
New evidence was released on Friday after a gag order on pretrial evidence was lifted. The evidence included the suspicions of Patterson’s estranged husband, Simon Patterson, that she had previously attempted to kill him.
Simon Patterson, who had been estranged from his wife since 2015, testified at a pre-trial hearing that he declined the invitation to the fatal lunch out of fear.
“I thought there’d be a risk that she’d poison me if I attended,” he told the court months before the trial.
He also said he had stopp