Back to ledger
GBThe GuardianErin Patterson mushroom trial

Erin Patterson argues mushroom murder convictions should be quashed due to ‘catastrophic’ failure of justice

Allowing jurors to stay in same hotel as police and prosecution denied Patterson a fair trial, lawyers tell Victorian court of appeal Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Lawyers for Erin Patterson have argued that allowing jurors to stay in the same hotel as police and the prosecution while they deliberated over their verdicts in the tripl

Open original article
Ledger record
#372
First seen
19 Aug 2026, 09:10 UTC
Last checked
19 Aug 2026, 13:01 UTC
Version history
1 version
Current fingerprint
699516e355c3...e711f6
01

Publisher layer

Recorded article metadata

Publisher
The Guardian
Country
England / United Kingdom
Source published
19 Aug 2026, 06:52 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter
Section
Erin Patterson mushroom trial
Source-supplied excerpt
Allowing jurors to stay in same hotel as police and prosecution denied Patterson a fair trial, lawyers tell Victorian court of appeal Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Lawyers for Erin Patterson have argued that allowing jurors to stay in the same hotel as police and the prosecution while they deliberated over their verdicts in the tripl
02

Change layer

Observed version timeline

  1. 1
    Initial capture

    Erin Patterson argues mushroom murder convictions should be quashed due to ‘catastrophic’ failure of justice

    Allowing jurors to stay in same hotel as police and prosecution denied Patterson a fair trial, lawyers tell Victorian court of appeal Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Lawyers for Erin Patterson have argued that allowing jurors to stay in the same hotel as police and the prosecution while they deliberated over their verdicts in the tripl

    Changed fieldstitlebylinedescriptionTextcontentTextsourcePublishedAtsourceUpdatedAtsectionimageUrltags
    Version SHA-256
    699516e355c3...e711f6
    Capture SHA-256
    1abd1ae387f2...310803
03

Interpretation layer

Labels with declared origins

Not an adjudication.

Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.

  • machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
  • machine language-signal Allegation language observable-rules-v1 / 65% rule confidence
  • publisher category Australia news rss-category
  • publisher category Erin Patterson mushroom trial rss-category
  • publisher category Victoria rss-category
04

Public response layer

Reception snapshots

No reviewed reception capture yet.

Comment counts and samples remain absent until a lawful, source-specific capture method is reviewed. Absence is recorded instead of estimated.

05

Evidence layer

Capture provenance

Capture ID
#5
Observed
19 Aug 2026, 09:10 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
460,971 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt