A man has told how he almost died after eating spaghetti bolognese containing poisonous fungi prepared by his wife, after Erin Patterson allegedly killed three dinner guests in Australia
A man has told how he “prepared for the end” after nearly dying from eating death cap mushrooms in his wife’s spaghetti bolognese.
Erin Patterson has admitted feeding her former parents-in-law poisonous mushrooms at a dinner where three people have died. And now a man said that he was lucky to avoid death when he was served the poisonous mushrooms by his wife 25 years ago.
Many people in Australia have been left stunned by the news that 48-year-old Patterson invited her ex-in-laws Gail and Don Patterson, both 70, Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, and husband Ian, 66, for lunch on July 29, and allegedly poisoned them.
Both in-laws died as well as Mrs Wilkinson after eating beef wellington for lunch at the house in Leongatha, in Victoria’s South Gippsland region. And Mr Wilkinson is in a critical condition in hospital waiting for a liver transplant. Ms Patterson is accused of inviting her estranged ex-husband Simon Patterson to their former family home as part of a mediation – but her former partner did not attend.