Husband suspected wife of poisoning him before toxic mushroom murders

A judge on Friday lifted a gag order on pretrial evidence that triple murderer Erin Patterson, 50, had wanted kept secret while she attempts to overturn her convictions
Husband suspected wife of poisoning him before toxic mushroom murders

Erin Patterson was convicted of murder. Picture: James Ross/AAP/AP

The husband of a woman convicted of killing three people with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms suspected his wife had been poisoning him more than a year before the fatal meal, an Australian court has heard.

A judge on Friday lifted a gag order on pretrial evidence that triple murderer Erin Patterson, 50, had wanted kept secret while she attempts to overturn her convictions.

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