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The woman who hosted a poisonous lunch where four people fell ill - three of whom have since died - has been forced to flee her home.
Said to have been poisoned by wild mushrooms, three in a tight-knit town are dead, with another critical.
Erin Patterson, 48, invited her former in-laws, Gail and Don Patterson, Gail's sister and her husband, Heather and Ian Wilkinson, for lunch at her Leongatha home, in Victoria's Gippsland.
Erin Patterson, 48, invited Don and Gail Patterson and Heather and Ian Wilkinson to lunch at her Leongatha home, in Victoria's Gippsland region, on July 29.
Three elderly people died after going to their former in-law's house for a lunch where they ingested highly toxic mushrooms. Another man is in critical condition in the hospital.