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Erin Patterson’s pre-sentencing trial has the whole country talking this week. In a special report (p10), we’ve pulled together all the incriminating evidence you might not have seen about one of Australia’s worst ever female serial killers. It makes for some pretty chilling reading. In other news, our Entertainment Writer Olivia spoke to Gogglebox’s Anastasia Katselas about how her weight-loss journey has led her to feeling happier and healthier than ever (p30). She was glowing on our photoshoot and is excited about what her newfound energy means for her kids. Plus, check out style icon 82-year-old Marie (p40), who proves that age really is just a number. Katherine Chatfield Editor See privacy notice on page 54. Cover Patterson picture: AFP/Martin Keep.…
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Convicted mushroom murderer Erin Patterson returns to court this week for the pre-sentence hearing. While everyone now knows the shocking details of what happened to Heather Wilkinson and Gail and Don Patterson, their grieving loved ones are also deemed victims of Patterson’s heinous crimes. And this pre-sentence hearing gives them the opportunity to tell the court how their lives have been affected by the events of July 29, 2023, through Victim Impact Statements. When asked how many people would be presenting these statements, it is significant that the prosecutor Jane Warren replied, “All I can say is a lot.” The killer faces the possibility of a life sentence for each count of murder, which would see her live the rest of her life behind bars for poisoning her victims with…
Erin Patterson allegedly poisoned Simon four times Evidence that Simon Patterson had fallen seriously ill after consuming food made by his ex-wife was ruled inadmissible during the murder trial. As was the shocking revelation that he had fallen seriously ill on four separate occasions between November 2021 and September 2022 after eating meals such as a penne bolognese and a vegetable wrap prepared by Patterson. After a 2022 camping trip with his ex where he ate chicken korma Simon hadn’t seen Patterson prepare, he became so unwell he ended up in hospital where he was placed in an induced coma for 16 days and had three emergency operations on his small intestine. After raising suspicions to his doctor, Christopher Ford, in late 2022 that Patterson might be trying to poison…
A former colleague who worked with Patterson – then going by her family surname Scutter – as an air traffic controller in the early 2000s told the ABC she was “quite aggressive in the way she spoke to people” and that people were “wary” of her changeable moods. Another called her “a little bit strange”. One recalled how the murderer was known as “Scutter the Nutter” and “crazy Erin” by her co-workers. They allege that on one occasion she prank called into Air Australia Services pretending to be a colleague. She imitated them saying she was too sick to work, so in turn she could pick up more lucrative shifts. “I think that she is clever. She’s crafty, but she’s not as clever as she thinks,” said one former colleague.…
The convicted killer’s dysfunctional relationship with her own mother is now being put under the microscope. According to Mail Online, a source in a true-crime Facebook group who was interviewed by investigators said Victoria Police feared that there were more victims, including her mother Heather Scutter, who passed away in January 2019, although there is no evidence to suggest that was the case. Dr Scutter was a Monash University lecturer and a renowned academic. In text messages to friends shortly after Heather’s death in January 2019, Patterson shared her thoughts on her “cold robot” mother and “doormat” dad, Eitan, who died in 2011. A neighbour told Mail Online that Dr Scutter was “a lovely woman, as was her husband” and was receiving treatment for cancer. She said Patterson stayed with…
