Erin Pearson
Erin Pearson covers crime and justice for The Age.
An offer of forgiveness and a ‘tsunami’ of grief laid bare by Erin Patterson’s victims
Prosecutors want mushroom cook Patterson to die in jail for her premeditated murder of three lunch guests. But one of her victims extended an unlikely olive branch.
- Erin Pearson
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A hair straightener, a fan and lots of wool. Inside Erin Patterson’s prison cell
A portrait of the mushroom lunch killer’s life behind bars reveals her isolation, the small courtyard where she can see daylight and her unit block mates.
- Erin Pearson
The ‘elaborate’ cover-up after the beef Wellington lunch and the single word that might have changed everything
September 8 is the date Erin Patterson will learn her fate – whether that be life in prison without the possibility of parole, as the prosecution has requested, or life with the possibility of the poisoner one day walking outside of jail once again.
- Erin Pearson
Bail for doctor accused of spying on hundreds of women in hospital toilets
A trainee doctor accused of secretly filming women using toilets at major Melbourne hospitals has been granted bail. In court, his father vowed to take him on long walks and hikes.
- Erin Pearson
Junior doctor accused of toilet spying hit with 127 new charges
Sex crime detectives have charged a trainee surgeon with alleged offending against colleagues at three major Melbourne hospitals.
- Carla Jaeger and Erin Pearson
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Teen cleared of murdering Declan Cutler due to young age charged over violent home invasion
The teenager, who was 13 when he was involved in the street killing of Cutler, has been arrested after a home invasion in Melbourne’s north-west where a man was stabbed and shot.
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‘Goodbye, my daughter’: A mother lays heartbreak bare. An alleged murderer winks, smirks in court
Ross Judd, 34 is accused of killing a pregnant woman and beheading her partner in Mount Waverley.
- Erin Pearson, Marta Pascual Juanola and Angus Delaney
‘The jury must be relieved’: Why we are now hearing evidence banned from mushroom murder trial
Erin Patterson’s case has prompted questions about how and why evidence wasn’t disclosed to the jury during the marathon 10-week trial.
- Erin Pearson
The whole truth and nothing but the truth. Or was it?
Previously suppressed evidence from investigations into Erin Patterson’s mushroom murders has now been released, prompting questions over whether the jury really heard the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
- Erin Pearson
In her own voice: Court releases Erin Patterson’s police interview
A video extract of an interview with the mushroom killer has been released to the public for the first time.
- Erin Pearson