Australia’s mushroom murderer loses bid to overturn convictions – as it happened
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Patterson showed no emotion on the video feed as McLeish outlined why her appeal had failed, and how the director of public prosecutions had succeeded in seeking a longer sentence.
Patterson’s actions mean it is ‘inappropriate’ to fix non-parole period, justice says
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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