WorldHotel booking mix-up could help ‘mushroom murderer’ overturn convictions
Erin Patterson is appealing her convictions for serving a poisonous mushroom-laced lunch that killed three people and gravely injured another. Her lawyers argue that accommodation shortages during a table tennis tournament placed the sequestered jury in the same hotel as prosecutors, a key police witness and journalists, fatally undermining the trial’s fairness and requiring a retrial.
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BBC News★★★☆☆2026-08-22 19:03Original
Hotel booking mix-up could help ‘mushroom murderer’ overturn convictions
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