Court of appeal ruling on the two appeals from 10am in the high profile Australian mushroom triple-murder case
Patterson’s actions mean it is ‘inappropriate’ to fix non-parole period, justice says
McLeish said the court had found Patterson’s actions “carefully planned and deliberate”, saying she had engaged in an “elaborate series of deceptions”.
The applicant’s murderous intent dated back to the invitations to lunch, it persisted through the lunch that the poison was administered …
We have concluded that the case involved such calculated criminality that it is inappropriate to fix a non-parole period.
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