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BRISBANE — The Australian woman convicted of killing three lunch guests with the world’s most toxic mushrooms was sentenced to three life sentences with a non-parole period of 33 years on Monday, bookending a real-life crime drama that’s gripped Australia and spawned multiple podcasts and documentaries.Erin Patterson, 50, was found guilty in July of murdering three people, including the parents, aunt and uncle of her estranged husband, Simon Patterson, with a beef wellington meal she had deliberately laced with death cap mushrooms picked near her rural home in the state of Victoria in 2023.The life sentences will be served concurrently with a 25-year sentence for the attempted murder of the sole survivor, pastor Ian Wilkinson, whose wife of 44 years, Heather, was among the guests who...
September 08, 2025
‘Mushroom murderer’ given three life sentences for killing lunch guests
September 08, 2025
Palestinian prisoners not being given adequate food, Israel top court says
September 08, 2025
Huge drugs bust reveals battles on cocaine 'superhighway'
September 08, 2025
The Caribbean islands battling the region's 'highest murder rate'
September 08, 2025
South Korean worker describes panic and confusion during Hyundai ICE raid
September 08, 2025
South Korea reaches deal to bring home citizens detained in US Hyundai raid
September 08, 2025
European leaders to visit US to discuss war in Ukraine, Trump says
September 08, 2025
Argentine rights activist Rosa Roisinblit dies aged 106
September 08, 2025
Greta Thunberg's Gaza flotilla arrives in Tunisia
MUMBAI - The nightmare began with a phone call that would cost Anjali (not her real name) 58.5m rupees ($663,390).The caller claimed to be from a courier company, alleging that Mumbai customs had seized a drug parcel she was sending to Beijing.Anjali, a resident of Gurugram, a suburb of Indian capital Delhi, fell prey to a "digital arrest" scam — fraudsters posing as law enforcement officials on video calls and threatening her with life in prison and harm to her son unless she obeyed.Over five harrowing days last September, they kept her under 24/7 surveillance on Skype, terrified her with threats, and coerced her into liquidating her savings and transferring the money."After that, my brain stopped working. My mind shut down," she says.By the time the calls stopped,...
September 08, 2025
Duped of millions in 'digital arrest', Indian woman seeks answers from banks
