August 19, 2026 — 8:14pm

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A hotel bungle is at the centre of death cap mushroom killer Erin Patterson’s fight for freedom as her new legal team fleshes out seven reasons it says she was wrongly convicted of murdering her in-laws.

The 51-year-old’s new barrister, Richard Edney, told a panel of three Court of Appeal judges in Melbourne on Wednesday that an “inexplicable failure” to separate the jury from the public, prosecution and police during deliberations created a potential miscarriage of justice.

In the days after an 11-week-long trial…

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