By Liam Beatty
Standing flanked by two burly guards in the dock at 2.15pm as the dozen Victorians returned to the court for the first time in more than a week, Patterson tried to meet their eyes.
But as each of the seven men and five women took their seat, none would match her gaze.
Justice Beale鈥檚 associate then asked the foreperson, a woman wearing a brown cardigan, if they had agreed on verdicts.
鈥淵es we have,鈥 she said, before softly pronouncing 鈥済uilty鈥 four times for the three murder and one attempted murder charges.
Ms Patterson, 50, faced trial after pleading not guilty to three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder stemming from a lunch she hosted at her Leongatha home, in southeast Victoria, on July 29, 2023.
The mother-of-two served a beef wellington meal to four members of her husband Simon Patterson鈥檚 family containing death cap mushrooms.
Simon鈥檚 parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail鈥檚 sister, Heather Wilkinson, died from death cap poisoning in the week following the lunch while Heather鈥檚 husband, Ian Wilkinson, survived.
Prosecutors alleged Ms Patterson deliberately sought out and included the deadly fungi in the lunch intending to kill or at least seriously injure her guests.
Her defence, on the other hand, have argued the poisoning was an unintentional and tragic accident 鈥 questioning why Ms Patterson would want to kill her loved ones.
Over eight weeks of evidence, jurors in the trial heard from more that 50 witnesses, including family, doctors, experts and Ms Patterson herself.
The jury, of eight men and five women, were sent out to deliberate shortly after 1pm on Monday when they were told any verdict must be unanimous.
It has been 7 days since they were sent out.
Over the course of their deliberations, jurors are being sequestered at a hotel and have limited contact with the outside world having handed over their phones.
In his final remarks, Justice Beale said they would be deliberating Mondays to Saturdays and given as long as it takes.