Australian woman appears in court charged with poisoning husband and his relatives with mushrooms

A sketch of Erin Patterson appearing in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court last year (Anita Lester/AAP Image via AP)

A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s parents and an aunt poisonous mushrooms with lunch appeared in an Australian court on Monday charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder.

Erin Patterson, 49, appeared briefly in the Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court by video link from a Melbourne prison where she has been held since she was arrested in November last year.