Australian toxic mushroom killer Erin Patterson faces her victims' relatives in court Monday before a judge sentences her for a triple murder that made headlines worldwide.

It will be the 50-year-old's first appearance in court since July when a jury found Patterson guilty of murder by cooking up a beef Wellington meal laced with death cap mushrooms.

She was convicted of deliberately serving the poisonous fare to her husband's parents, aunt and uncle at a sumptuous lunch in her rural home in the state of Victoria in 2023.

Within days, the parents and aunt were dead.

The uncle -- a local pastor and the only guest to survive -- spent weeks in hospital but lived to give testimony in court against his host.

Patterson now faces a two-day pre-sentencing hearing at the Supreme Court of Victo

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