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 estranged husband’s relatives, who died after she deliberately served them poisonous mushrooms for lunch.

In what is being called Australia’s ’trial of the century’, Erin Patterson was found guilty of murdering her estranged husband’s parents and aunt by spiking their sumptuous lunch with death cap mushrooms in 2023.