https://apnews.com/article/poisonous-mushrooms-arrest-australia-deaths-18b4537159dc172592f8c58f4261031f
Australian police have arrested the host of a luncheon gathering that left three guests dead from suspected mushroom poisoning and a fourth fighting for life.
These are one of those crimes from like the 1800 back when you could actually get away with a poison murder.
But this one --
She wrote that she also ate the meal and later suffered stomach pains and diarrhea.
Let's see if she's telling the truth. If she ate like a small piece in a bad attempt to throw off the scent, we'll know.
Also she said she bought the shrooms from a "Asian supermarket". Pretty easy to trace that back, especially death caps.
Definitely a easy case to do detective work on.
"Murder in Victoria carries a potential maximum sentence of 15 years in prison." Now that's wild.
Why? Prison is supposed to be rehabilitative. In America it is 100% punitive instead, but Australia retains like 25% of the rehabilitation concept.
I'm all for rehabilitation. But according to the University of Adelaide, almost half of prisoners released in 2018-19 returned to prison within two years. Not much rehabilitation going on there. Also, if we're talking about rehabilitation, fixed lengths for prison sentences make no sense. A prisoner should then be released into society when they have been rehabilitated, not after a fixed amount of years.
I agree, hence why I said Australia is like 25% still about rehab, were 75% like the US where it's just punitive. If we actually moved towards proper rehab like some European states then we'd see improvement in outcomes.
It's actually 25. But it's amazing to think that people in Florida can get 30 years just for possessing some weed. I think it might be the US that has the problem here.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police on Thursday arrested the host of a luncheon gathering that left three guests dead from suspected mushroom poisoning and a fourth fighting for life.
Victoria state police executed a search warrant at Erin Patterson’s home at Leongatha where her former husband’s parents, Gail and Don Patterson, both aged 70, Gail Patterson’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, and her husband Ian Wilkinson, 68, gathered on July 29 for lunch.
“Today’s arrest is just the next step in what has been a complex and thorough investigation by Homicide Squad detectives and one that is not yet over,” Thomas told reporters.
Police say the symptoms the four diners had suffered were consistent with poisoning by wild Death Cap Mushrooms.
Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported that Erin Patterson had written in a statement that she had cooked a Beef Wellington steak dish for the lunch using mushrooms bought from a major supermarket chain and dried mushrooms from an Asian grocery store.
Ian Wilkinson, a Baptist pastor, was released from hospital in late September and police say he continues to recover.
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