Triple-murderer Erin Patterson has stolen "years of love and laughter", family members of the victims poisoned by her toxic beef Wellington lunch have told a court.
Patterson, 50, was last month found guilty of killing three relatives - and attempting to kill another - with a death cap mushroom-laced meal in July 2023.
In a hearing on Monday, ahead of her sentencing on 8 September, a group of relatives gave emotional statements about the impact of their loved ones' brutal deaths.
The sole survivor of the lunch, local pastor Ian Wilkinson, said he felt "half alive" without his late wife Heather - but made a powerful offer of forgiveness to the woman who killed her and almost took his life too.
In the days after the meal at Patterson's home, her former in-laws Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, died in hospital, as well as Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, 66.
