Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on Erin Patterson facing her husband’s family in two-day pre-sentence hearing

Deadly mushroom cook Erin Patterson will face members of her husband’s family for the first time after a jury found she murdered three people with a poisoned beef Wellington.

Patterson was found guilty of  three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder last month relating to a fatal lunch she hosted in the Victorian country town of Leongatha more than two years ago.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says over a dozen members of her victims’ families arrived for the hearing - but Patterson has yet to make a statement.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Olli Peterson six PR Perth Life Presenters with us OLI.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hello, Hello Heaven.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, and our ants can't control this one because it's
at my end.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Honestly, just the confidence from you after what the spring
box did to you, guys.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
So you can't lose, Heather.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I mean you've got a foot in both camps this weekend.
New Zealand lose, South Africa wins, so Heather's happy.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Right, Yeah, Yeah, I'm having a good time quite, do
you know what. I'm one of those contrarians though, that
likes it when the all Blacks just get reminded that
they can't always win, because that does get dull. You'll
never have experienced this Oli in your life, but as
a country that always won for a really long time, gosh,
it gets boring.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh I'm sure it does. But I mean, like we
always do here in Australia. If when, if there's something
that's successful in New Zealand, we obviously claim it for
ourselves because if it didn't leave New Zealand and the
rest of the world wouldn't know about it unless it
came to us throughout.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
From either But hey, listen, what about we were so
stoked about James O'Connor and then as boot just went away,
didn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
It did? But that's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
You know, we broke a record in Johannesburg. You know,
lots of injuries over the weekend. But we're back.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
We're that baby. Oh yeah, I'm confident.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I see now Aaron Patterson is back. How'd that go down?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
But yeah, well, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
She's appeared back in court today and she has been
us to hear these impact statements and our only surviving
victim has forgiven her would you believe for trying to
kill her husband, but she urged her in court to
confess to the murders, and Aaron Patterson continues to deny
that so Ian Wilkinson's wife Head who was obviously murder
along with her sister Gail Patterson husband Don by that

(01:46):
death cat mushroom lace beef Wellington prepared by Patterson and
in the Supreme Court of Melbourne today the church pastor
he stood in the court and describe the impact they're
losing his wife becoming ill while offering that olive branch
of forgiveness to the killer. He said, what foolishness possesses
a person to think that murder could be a solution
for their problems, especially people who only have good intentions
towards her.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
She's brought deep.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Sorrow and grief into my life and the life of others.
Now she hasn't said anything. She's refusing to again confess
to those murders. But no doubt there's a hell of
a lot of intrigue into this today and whether we
hear anything from Aaron Patterson before she is formally sentenced.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
I'm not holding the breath now.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I'm surprised that you guys don't have a public sex
offender registry in Queensland's going to be the first.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
So you're going to be able to research this depending
on where you live, to know if there is a
sex offender that lives in your neighborhood, and you'll actually
get images as.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well of what this particular person looks like.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
So it's public facing, so we can all go for
a little search on it.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, that's it.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
So you know, look, there are some lobby groups here saying, well,
you know, there's some human rights issues around this. Well,
you know, don't do what you did before, then you
wouldn't have to worry about these things. But I'm not
saying that you want vigilades to go around and bashing
people up. But it is interesting here in Western Stralia
we do have not quite the same level of what
Queensland has just introduced, but you can research if they're

(03:06):
you know, put your post code basically into a website
and say does somebody live at six double zero four?

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Now they've got to tee you the address or the
street that they live of. But how many sex offendas
live in your suburbs?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
So Queensland is going a bit first, Well, that's right,
it doesn't mean anything, doesn't So you might live in
a suburb with ten and I might live in a
suburb with one hundred.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Great, how does that make you feel?

Speaker 3 (03:23):
So this one though, they want to go national, and
it actually ties into what we were talking about on
Friday Heather with regards to the childcares and being able
to have a police check. So the Attorney's generals nationally
cannot agree to standardize legislation around that particular police check.
But that's why Queensland's going hard and first it's brought
on by the Morcambe family or all. Remember Daniel Morcambe

(03:46):
of course in his legacy as to why this is
being introduced, Daniel's Law, it's to.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Try and help children who can't protect themselves.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
But I just I wonder whether or not by providing
people with images of those people who live in your suburbs,
what does what does that do?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
What does that lead to it? It's a rather interesting.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well but is it about that, Ollie or is it
actually about them? I mean, there is an element to that.
But we've had a case, We've had cases where people
have committed sex offenses then gone under the radar, popped
up again and done it. Now, wouldn't it be helpful
if you are the step mother, let's say that you're
the mother, this is the step father, to actually just
google them and be like has this guy done this

(04:24):
stuff before?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's true, that's very true.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
And I mean we use in WA a lot of
you know, sex offenders who are out from jail that
they're to wear ankle bracelets. We have lots of people
that were them over here in WI and they don't
always work either.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, well there you go. Now listen, why did Sydney
walk away from this train station in the seventies.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Because all the Nimbi's didn't want to.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
I mean, it is Sydney's eastern suburbs, right, This is
like the most exclusive address in Australia if you wanted
to live in Well, I mean, this is kind of
place you'd live if you're in Sydney, like.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Wellllara, you'd love it, Heather.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
So they're saying, right, this was built back in the seventies.
It's all there, but it's grassed over the top. But
on the weekends, how's this They're going to open this
station sixty years later and build enough affordable housing apartments
for additional ten thousand new homes.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh no, ten thousand.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
That's a nuts figure that they think they can squeeze into, Alara.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
The Nimbis are not happy about it at all, of
course that not.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Hey, thank you very much, Ollie, appreciate it and you're
charming as always. Oliver Peterson six PR Perth Live Presenter.

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