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The Victorian woman at the centre of a mushroom meal that resulted in the deaths of three people has been arrested. Erin Patterson was arrested on Thursday morning and has been taken to Wonthaggi police station for questioning. 7NEWS understands officers are also searching Patterson’s home with the assistance from Australian Federal Police detector dogs.
Heather Wilkinson, her sister Gail Patterson and brother-in-law Don Patterson all died after eating a beef wellington at Patterson’s home in Leongatha, in Victoria’s southeast, on July 29. Heather’s husband and baptist church pastor Ian Wilkinson survived the lunch and spent nearly two months in hospital in a critical but stable condition. He was released from hospital last month and was seen for the first time last month arriving at Korumburra Indoor Recreation Centre for his wife’s memorial.
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