MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Australia’s Victoria state will appeal the sentence handed down to convicted mushroom murderer Erin Patterson, with the prosecutor calling the sentence ‘manifestly inadequate,” Australia’s national broadcaster reported on Monday.

Patterson was last month convicted of murdering three elderly relatives of her estranged husband with a meal containing poisonous mushrooms in the township of Leongatha, Victoria. She was sentenced to a minimum of 33 years in prison.

The presiding judge said Erin Patterson showed no pity for her in-laws after she served them individual portions of Beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms, in what was one of the longest jail terms ever given to a woman in the country.

“The Director of Public Prosecutions has filed an appeal against the

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