Beef Wellington

probably like be the minimum.

Gabe was doing like, it looked like a Beef Wellington, just shaped like a dog.

You could go bigger than that even when it's like hand built.

Not just a dog.

But legal experts say there is an extremely high legal bar for Patterson to clear in order for her to be able to appeal to the High Court.

The 52-year-old Leangatha mother has always pleaded innocence and claimed she did not know the mushrooms in the Beef Wellington were poisonous.

They also accepted prosecutors' arguments her original sentence had been inadequate.

In all the circumstances, after anxious consideration, we have concluded that the case involved such shocking criminality that it is inappropriate to fix a non-parole period.

Erin Patterson had been serving life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years for murdering three people and attempting to murder a fourth by poisoning their beef wellingtons with death cap mushrooms.

She'll now have no chance of parole.

The justices found offering Ms Patterson the chance of parole 33 years into her sentence did not reflect the calculated criminality of the case on the facts identified by the sentencing judge.

Reporter Oliver Gordon joins me for more.

Ollie, it wasn't just for true crime buffs this case, it really gripped Australia and of course the world for its plotting and deception and of course the infamous dinner party where the fatal beef wellington was served.

Yeah, this was one of those cases, wasn't it, Andy? We all watched on at the start in horror and confusion when those reports started emerging back in 2023 of this dinner party gone wrong.

Erin Patterson's parents-in-law, Donald and Gail Patterson, along with relatives Ian and Heather Wilkinson, became violently ill after eating serves of Beef Wellington.

We now know this food, served by Erin Patterson, contained death cap mushrooms.

Donald and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson died from their illnesses while Ian Wilkinson survived.

Reporter Oliver Gordon joins me for more.

Ollie, it wasn't just for true crime buffs this case, it really gripped Australia and of course the world for its plotting and deception and of course the infamous dinner party where the fatal beef wellington was served.

Yeah, this was one of those cases, wasn't it, Andy? We all watched on at the start in horror and confusion when those reports started emerging back in 2023 of this dinner party gone wrong.

Erin Patterson's parents-in-law, Donald and Gail Patterson, along with relatives Ian and Heather Wilkinson, became violently ill after eating serves of Beef Wellington.

We now know this food, served by Erin Patterson, contained death cap mushrooms.

Donald and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson died from their illnesses while Ian Wilkinson survived.

It was a.

Do you remember where that was? Beef Wellington.

Was that upstate New York? It was, I want to say in Florida.

Yeah.

What? It was Beef Wellington was on the menu, and it was like a little note, like, if you order this, please note, it will take 40 minutes.

And I was like, who got the duck?

Like, I was like, this is crazy.

Like, who's eating Beef Wellington to come see Shannon perform? That's crazy.

That's incredible.

Sometimes we're unable to do a Beef Wellington at 7 o'clock on a Saturday night from scratch.

Do you

have all the ingredients, though, usually? It

And as directors and leaders, we want the same thing for our staff and creating those experiences can sometimes feel like I use a restaurant analogy where you're putting the same dish on the menu year after year.

Why? Because Beef Wellington's a hit.

However, how do you spice it up from year to year? How do you make changes? And so if there's somebody out there, here's a question for you, because you're newer to this aspect of it than I am.

If somebody is thinking to themselves, is it worth their time to go to the New England Camp Conference this year? How would you respond?

Can you just elaborate on that a wee bit?

Well, I think it was, as I said, it was so innocuous, wasn't it? You know, it was just such an ordinary situation, a family sitting down to a Sunday lunch, you know, Beef Wellington.

It's just so ordinary.

And yet behind the scenes, we have a woman plotting mass murder.