The jury in Erin Patterson's trial sat through weeks of evidence before convicting her of murder. On Monday, Patterson was found guilty of the murders of her parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson and Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson. She was also found guilty of the attempted murder of Heather's husband Ian.

An Australian woman was on Monday convicted of murdering three elderly relatives of her estranged husband with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, and attempting to murder a fourth, in a case that gripped the country.