The doctor who first raised the alarm with police about triple murderer Erin Patterson has been punished by the medical regulator, months after referring to the mushroom cook as a “disturbed sociopathic nut bag”.

Dr Chris Webster, who was working as a visiting medical officer at Leongatha Hospital, spoke with Patterson when she arrived with gastro-like symptoms.

Shocked when she discharged herself after barely five minutes of medical attention, Webster phoned triple zero and requested a police check on her wellbeing.

Webster was later subpoenaed to testify in Patterson’s murder trial and, following the guilty verdicts, gave an interview to the Herald Sun . In that interview, he called Patterson a “crazy bitch” and a “disturbed sociopathic nut bag” – comments which subsequently came

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