00:00Your total effective sentence will be life imprisonment, and the period during which you will be ineligible for parole will be a very substantial one.
00:11In addition to denying the use of foraged mushrooms, you engaged in an elaborate cover-up of your guilt.
00:19I find that you disposed of the four grey plates on which you served the poison beef wellingtons.
00:23You falsely made out that you had fed your children leftover beef wellingtons with the pastry and mushrooms scraped off.
00:31You feigned illness.
00:32You disposed of the dehydrator soon after you were released from hospital.
00:37You maintained the vague story about sourcing dried mushrooms at an Asian grocery,
00:42and had the gall to tell police in your recorded police interview that you had been very, very helpful to the health department in its investigation of the incident.
00:51You disposed of your phone and provided police with a dummy phone.
00:56You lied to the police in your recorded police interview about various matters.
01:02Finally, and most importantly, your offending involved an enormous betrayal of trust.
01:08Your victims were all your relatives by marriage.
01:11More than that, they had all been good to you and your children over many years, as you acknowledged in your testimony.
01:17Not only did you cut short three lives and cause lasting damage to Ian Wilkinson's health, thereby devastating the extended Patterson and Wilkinson families,
01:28you inflicted untold suffering on your own children, whom you robbed of their beloved grandparents.
01:35The horrendous nature of your offending.
01:41Your total effective sentence will be life imprisonment, and the period during which you will be ineligible for parole will be a very substantial one.
01:51Please stand.
01:52All sentences are to be served concurrently.
02:23The total effective sentence is life imprisonment, and I fix a non-parole period of 33 years.
02:33I declare that you have served 676 days by way of pre-sentence detention.
02:40Finally, and by consent, I make the disposal order sought by the prosecution.
02:48Would you please remove Ms Paterson?
02:52I am?
02:58Speaker 627 I will say you are going to
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