The only guest to survive a toxic mushroom lunch with Australian murderer Erin Patterson said Monday he feels "half alive" without his wife, who was one of the three victims.

Pastor Ian Wilkinson wept in court as he spoke of the loss of his wife Heather after she ate a beef Wellington dish laced with death cap mushrooms -- the world's deadliest fungi.

Patterson, 50, was convicted in July of 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, but the uncle -- Ian Wilkinson -- survived after weeks in hospital to give testimony at his host's murder trial, which became a global media sensation.

Erin Patterson was present in the Supreme Court of Victoria in M

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