The only surviving guest of a lunch laced with death cap mushrooms has said he feels ‘half alive’ without his ‘beautiful wife’.

But, in a statement to the killer at her pre-sentencing hearing in Melbourne, Ian Wilkinson shocked the court by offering his forgiveness.

Erin Patterson, 50, murdered three of her estranged husband’s relatives by serving them the world’s deadliest funghi in a beef Wellington lunch at her rural home in the state of Victoria.

Patterson’s former in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, died shortly after eating the meal in July 2023.

Heather’s husband, Ian, was the sole survivor. He was in an induced coma for weeks following the poisoning.

Patterson denied three murder charges and one of attempted murder but, in July th

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