Erin Patterson’s ‘failure to exhibit any remorse pours salt into all the victims’ wounds’, judge said
Patterson was found guilty in July of killing her mother-in-law, Gail Patterson, father-in-law, Donald Patterson and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson in a case that has been globally followed and dubbed the Leongatha mushroom murders.
On Monday, Justice Christopher Beale said the substantial planning of the murders and Patterson’s lack of remorse meant her sentence should be lengthy, at the sentencing hearing at the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne.
“Your failure to exhibit any remorse pours salt into all the victims’ wounds,” Beale told Patterson as he read out her sentence.
“The devastating impact of your crimes is not limited to your direct victims. Your crimes have harmed a great many people,” he said.
