Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Erin Patterson looking to appeal her guilty verdict

Lawyers for mushroom murderer Erin Patterson plan to appeal her guilty verdicts.

The 50-year-old has a life sentence with 33 years non-parole period for killing three relatives with a beef wellington lunch laced with poisonous deathcap mushrooms in 2023.

Patterson's barrister made the appeal announcement today.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds Patterson's got a new legal team to help move the appeal forward.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International correspondence with ends in Eye Insurance Peace of Mind.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
For New Zealand Business.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Murray Old's Ossie correspondent is with us MARS.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello, very good afternoon, Edna.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Listen. I just got to confirm location. You are in
the toilets of a Chinese restaurant.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yes, I am. I'm having a delicious Young char lunch.
We've just demolished the first course. Green tea is the
only beverage being consumed. I could confirm that, but I
am hiding out on the duney okay, because out there
in the restaurant's far too noise.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Okay, So we're just going to you just bar the
door while we have this chat, and then you can
let them in afterwards. Not really a surprise, is it
that the mushroom chef is appealing the guilty verdicts.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
That's right, dear Aaron Patterson. She's fifty one years old,
and if she doesn't succeed an appeal, she will be
in jail until she's at least eighty three. Here's the
thing she's appealing against, the guilty verdicts, not the length
of sentence for murdering three relatives, trying to murder report
the jury found it guilty. Embarrassed this morning confirmed an
appeal would be lodged. There's no ground spelled out, no

(01:03):
documentation lodged yet formally at least, but Pattison attended the
hearing heather by a video link from jail. She's got
a new legal team and it's headed by this very
high profile barristers guy called Julian McMahon sc and his
big name was made when he defended members of the
Bali nine Druggis smuggling ring. So yes, that confirmation coming

(01:27):
this morning in the in the Victorian Court of Criminal Appeal.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
How was she affording it? Because I thought she'd sold
up everything she had to pay the other barristers.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
I have no idea and these guys, as you know,
five thousand and six ten thousand bucks a day, So
I'm going to how she's paying for it?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Interesting? What's happening with your house prices?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Must right house prices? New figures today show well it's
a crisis over here. I understand it's pretty much a
crisis over home in New Zealand as well. These figures
produced by Sky News the Aussie housing crisis bad and
getting worse. Housing prices rising nearly twice as fast as
wages that since the COVID pandemic twenty twenty, the national

(02:06):
media and house price ever here has jumped fifty two
percent the last five years, fifty two percent up from
five hundred and sixty five thousand dollars December twenty twenty
September this year eight hundred and sixty k so three
hundred thousand dollars jump three Even things up, Incomes will
have to jump, according to these figures, by nineteen percent,
or house prices to four by sixteen percent. Neither's going

(02:29):
to happen. Salaries are up over the same time by
a poultry sixteen thousand dollars, the average salary up from
sixty to seventy six thousand dollars. No wonder people are screaming.
And at the same time, the federal government's just launched
this week help for first home buyers. If you've got
a five percent deposit, you can now get access to
government help to get you in your own home. The

(02:50):
rules have been changed. It's called the Home Guarantee Scheme. Previously,
you know, young borrelers have to have twenty percent deposit. Well,
good luck on that. You can't save twenty percent while
you're paying rent somewhere else. So, in other words, this
five percent scheme is going to have ninety five percent
borrowings and mortgages. Now there's two warnings this afternoon. It's
going to push up prices even higher. Plus means testing

(03:13):
has been removed. God only knows why have it so
there's nothing to stop they could him the opposition over here,
nothing at all to stop wealthy investors jumping in your zumping.
First time buyers who are desperate cheme get their first
little place anywhere, any size, will do just to get
their foot in the market.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Listen, is it becoming more and more likely that Daisy
Freeman is not alive?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh for sure, for sure. Thirty seven days now he's
been on the run, no sightings whatsoever. The police, I
don't know why they did it. Today they've renewed the
appeal to people, you know, if you know anything about
us whereabouts, please come forward. By the way, there's a
million dollar award out there. But there's been no sighting
of them, no campfires, no empty tins of bake beans,

(03:59):
And you'd have to think at some point the police
are saying the search is continuing but at some point
of a not too distant future Hither, you'd have to assume.
They would have to assume that he's dead somewhere out there.
It's a hell of a remote country, as we've discussed before,
and he could be anywhere. But you know, the longer
there's no sighting, you'd have to assume he's dead.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Maz, what's next on the what's your next course?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I was eyeing off the spring rolls, but there's some
delicious pork buns out there. We already had one one
of those and some fantastic little dumplings that I want
to second help it.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I feel like having lunch again, Maz. Thank you very much,
Go and enjoy it. Murray OL's Australia correspondent. We managed
to make it through there without without anybody intercepting him
in the toilet. For more from Hither, Duplessy Allen Drive.
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