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class="b-it-article-body article-body-wrapper article-sub-wrapper"><p class="c-paragraph">An Australian woman, accused of murdering three elderly people after they allegedly consumed poisonous mushrooms at a lunch hosted by her, faced her first hearing in court on Thursday, media reported.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Erin Patterson (49) appeared via video link for the brief directions hearing ahead of her murder trial, the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) reported.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0ffkTty6QNr1mi-3-4-8-113d7a8394483" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:300px"><div id="arcad_f0ffkTty6QNr1mi-3-4-8-113d7a8394483" class="arcad ad-300x250"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">She was charged in November with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder. She has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Don Patterson, his wife, Gail, and her sister Heather Wilkinson fell ill and later died after the lunch which was held in the small rural town of Leongatha, about 135km southeast of Melbourne, in July 2023.</p><div id="fusion-static-enter:html-block-f0f1Ui2nzrty1pg-3-4-0" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="html-block-f0f1Ui2nzrty1pg-3-4-0"></div><div><div style="border-block-start: 4px solid var(--global-neutral-2);font-family:var(--font-family-secondary);font-weight: var(--c-heading-font-weight);font-size:1.1rem; padding-top:0.8rem;margin-top:2rem;">READ MORE</div></div><div id="fusion-static-exit:html-block-f0f1Ui2nzrty1pg-3-4-0" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="html-block-f0f1Ui2nzrty1pg-3-4-0"></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Australian media at the time reported Don and Gail Patterson were the parents of Erin Patterson's ex-husband Simon Patterson, who was also present at 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