# Hotel booking mix-up could help ‘mushroom murderer’ overturn convictions

https://mins.news/en/item/29532

- BBC News, 2026-08-22 19:03 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9w09dj7qk5o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> 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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