The Australian woman was convicted of murdering three elderly relatives of her estranged husband with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, and attempting to murder a fourth, in a case that gripped the country.

In a case that took hold of the entire country, Erin Patterson on Monday was convicted following a 10-week trial in which prosecutors claimed she killed her mother-in-law, Gail Patterson, father-in-law, Donald Patterson, Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, and she attempted to also killed Heather's husband, Ian Wilkinson.