Convicted mushroom killer Erin Patterson has spent her first night behind bars since being handed a life sentence for the calculated murder of three lunch guests.

The 50-year-old was brought back to a secure unit at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Melbourne’s west on Monday after being sentenced in the Victorian Supreme Court.

She was jailed for life for murdering her former in-laws Don and Gail Patterson, 70, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, by serving them beef Wellingtons laced with death cap mushrooms.

Patterson also received a concurrent 25-year maximum sentence for the attempted murder of Heather’s husband Ian Wilkinson, who fell seriously ill after the July 2023 lunch but survived.

But Justice Christopher Beale showed Patterson mercy in setting a 33-year non-parole peri

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