Sole surviving lunch guest watches on as Victorian supreme court hears how hospital staff ‘thought he was going to die’ from death cap mushroom poisoning
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Who are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?
Ian Wilkinson sat in the Victorian supreme court, only metres from the woman accused of trying to murder him, as one of the men who helped save his life gave evidence.
The director of intensive care at Austin Health, Prof Stephen Warrillow, had already spoken about the deaths of three people from death cap mushroom poisoning and the particular characteristics of their illnesses; “rapidly progressive deterioration”, organ failure and of it being “non-survivable”.
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