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Australian court orders Erin Patterson never to be released from prison for mushroom poisonings

MELBOURNE: An Australian appeals court on Friday ordered Erin Patterson to never be released from prison because of the “shocking criminality” involved in poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms. The three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal upheld prosecutors’ challenge to the leniency of her 33-year non-parole sentence. “This offending was extraordinarily cold and calculated and stands to be denounced in the strongest terms,” Justice Stephen McLeis