Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions has lodged an appeal against the sentence handed to convicted mushroom killer Erin Patterson, claiming the 33-year minimum jail term imposed last month was far too lenient.

A spokeswoman for the Office of Public Prosecutions confirmed the move on Monday, saying, “We confirm that a DPP appeal has been filed on the basis that the sentence handed down to Erin Patterson is manifestly inadequate.”

The decision follows weeks of internal discussion after senior Crown figures were reportedly “underwhelmed” by Justice Christopher Beale’s sentence in August.

Patterson was found guilty of murdering her former in-laws Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson, and of attempting to kill Heather’s husband Ian Wilkinson, after serving a beef wellington lac

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