The jury in Erin Patterson's triple-murder trial have been given a masterclass on death cap mushrooms, which caused the deaths of three of her relatives and left one seriously ill.

There’s a reason big trials have a jury of 15 members when only 12 men and women decide the fate of an accused.

The fourth week of Erin Patterson’s murder trial will begin in the Victorian Supreme Court this morning. Ms Patterson has ...

Samples taken from Don Patterson and Ian Wilkinson tested positive for toxins found in death cap mushrooms. However, samples ...

Erin Patterson, 50, has pleaded not guilty to murdering her former in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail’s ...

"She said that she'd found it in a RecipeTin[Eats] cookbook, and that she wanted to do something new and special." ...

The triple murder trial of Erin Patterson continues from the Latrobe Valley Law Courts in Morwell. She's accused of killing three relatives who ate a meal she prepared which contained poisonous ...

A forensic toxicologist who examined the mushroom paste and beef taken from the leftovers said the samples tested positive ...

Beef wellington is a baked dish, which involves searing a beef tenderloin, wrapping it in a mushroom mix and encasing it in pastry. The court has not been told how Erin prepared her beef ...

A triple-murder trial over a poisonous beef Wellington that killed a woman's former in-laws, which has garnered global ...

Jurors in the trial of alleged poisoner Erin Patterson have heard about the wild journey leftovers of the fatal lunch took as ...