An alleged murderer testifying as a witness in their own defence is a rare strategy and normally a last resort.

Australian woman Erin Patterson has been found guilty of murdering three of her relatives and attempting to murder a fourth by serving them a meal laced with deadly death-cap mushrooms. The meal, a beef Wellington served at her home in Leongatha,

For 10 weeks, reporter Jarrod Whittaker witnessed the town of Morwell swell with media, money, and relentless curiosity, and from inside the courtroom he had a clear view of Erin Patterson as the jury delivered its verdict in the mushroom murder trial's final,