An overcrowded hotel during a table tennis tournament may end up giving Australia’s “mushroom murderer” a second shot in court. Lawyers for Erin Patterson, convicted of killing three people and severely injuring a fourth with a 2023 mushroom lunch, argue her trial was compromised when sequestered jurors wound up staying in the same Morwell hotel as prosecutors, the lead detective, and journalists due to a regional accommodation crunch because of the tournament, reports the BBC.
The jury had its own floor and supervised meals, and officials insist there was no interaction. But Patterson’s barrister calls the overlap
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