The Mushroom Cook - The Appeal | Erin to die in jail

And it couldn't have gone any worse for Erin Patterson.

Very bad news for Erin.

And I'm not sure she would have been expecting to be given life without parole.

As you know, she already had a 33-year minimum with her life on top.

It gave her some prospect of one day being outside of a prison wall.

Now she's set to die in jail.

Yes.

So to recap, there were two appeals today before the Court of Appeal.

The appeal Erin lodged against her convictions and the appeal the state's top prosecutors lodged against her sentence.

Erin lost her appeal.

She had seven grounds and she didn't win on any of them.

And then when it came to the prosecutor's appeal, that was successful.

But I think we were all maybe expecting a few years to be added onto a minimum sentence, but the Court of Appeal got rid of it altogether.

It's the harshest penalty that any prisoner can face.

She's not even Carl Williams, who was the kingpin of our gangland war in Melbourne, got a non-parole period.

He got a non-parole period.

But I think if you were to ask the general man or woman out on the streets, they'd say she's a triple killer and that's what you get.

Yeah, exactly.

So...

It seems now that she will likely die behind bars.

What is life going to look like for her at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre?

Well, as we've been reporting, she's in isolation.

She can't be with the general population, which is what most prisoners want.

She spends her days alone.

She is allowed an hour, maybe two, in a small cage outside.