澳大利亚一家上诉法院下令，因“令人震惊的犯罪性质”，三重谋杀犯艾琳·帕特森将终身监禁、不得假释。她曾用毒鹅膏菌毒杀四名疏远丈夫的亲属。维多利亚州上诉法院的三名法官驳回了帕特森对定罪的上诉，并支持检方对其33年不得假释刑期过轻的质疑，这意味着她将在狱中度过余生。在此之前，她将在82岁时才有资格被考虑假释。
An Australian appeals court has ordered triple-murderer Erin Patterson to never be released from prison because of the “shocking criminality” involved in poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms The three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal dismissed Patterson's appeal of her convictions and upheld prosecutors' challenge to the leniency of her 33-year nonparole sentence, meaning she will spend the rest of her life behind bars. Beforehand, she would have been 82 years old when she could be considered for release.
“此案犯罪手段极其冷酷周密，应受到最严厉的谴责，”代表三名法官发言的斯蒂芬·麦克利什大法官表示。
“This offending was extraordinarily cold and calculated and stands to be denounced in the strongest terms,” Justice Stephen McLeish said on behalf of all three judges.
麦克利什补充道：“综合所有情况，经审慎考虑，我们认定本案涉及如此令人震惊的犯罪性质，不宜设定不得假释期限。”
“In all the circumstances after anxious consideration, we have concluded that the case involved such shocking criminality that it is inappropriate to fix a nonparole period,” McLeish added.
帕特森是澳大利亚历史上第二名被判终身监禁且不得假释的女性。第一名是屠宰场工人凯瑟琳·奈特，她于2001年在新南威尔士州因谋杀其伴侣约翰·普赖斯被判刑，后者在一年前被刺伤至少37刀身亡。
Patterson is only the second woman in Australia to be imprisoned for life without possibility of parole. The first is meatworker Katherine Knight, who was sentenced in New South Wales state in 2001 for the murder a year earlier of her partner John Price, whom she'd stabbed at least 37 times.
帕特森的定罪源于2023年7月她在位于莱昂加萨的乡村住宅举办的一顿家庭聚餐。
Patterson's convictions stemmed from a family meal she hosted at her rural home in Leongatha in July 2023.
她可以向澳大利亚高等法院申请推翻对其刑期和定罪的裁决。高等法院是她最后的上诉渠道。
She can apply to Australia's High Court to overturn the verdicts on her sentence and her convictions. The High Court is her last appeal option.
帕特森坚称她是在无意中将毒鹅膏菌加入威灵顿牛排酥点菜肴中的。
Patterson insisted she added death cap mushrooms to the beef Wellington pastry dishes accidentally.
她于去年被判处三项无期徒刑（谋杀罪）和25年监禁（谋杀未遂罪）。
She was sentenced last year to three life sentences for murder and 25 years for attempted murder.
帕特森的岳父母唐和盖尔·帕特森，以及盖尔的妹妹希瑟·威尔金森，在午餐后几天内相继离世，此事立即引发了非同寻常的全球媒体关注。该案件还催生了播客节目、书籍和影视改编作品。
The deaths of Patterson’s parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, within days of having lunch immediately attracted an extraordinary level of global media attention. The case has also inspired podcasts, books and screen adaptations.
曾获艾美奖提名的演员梅兰妮·林斯基（Melanie Lynskey）本周宣布，她将在流媒体点播服务平台派拉蒙+（Paramount+）的一部六集剧集中饰演埃琳·帕特森（Erin Patterson）。
Emmy-nominated actor Melanie Lynskey announced this week she will star as Erin Patterson in a six-episode series for the subscription video-on-demand streaming service Paramount+.
林斯基还担任该剧的执行制片人，该剧将把从那场致命午餐到帕特森被捕之间的97天戏剧化呈现。
Lynskey is also executive producer of the series that dramatizes the 97 days from the fatal lunch until Patterson's arrest.
黑瑟的丈夫伊恩·威尔金森（Ian Wilkinson）在医院度过数周后幸免于难。埃琳·帕特森被判谋杀他未遂罪名成立。检察官在8月的一次上诉听证会上辩称，她永不得假释。
Heather’s husband Ian Wilkinson survived the lunch after spending weeks in hospital. Erin Patterson was convicted of his attempted murder. Prosecutors argued at an appeal hearing in August that she should never become eligible for parole.
他们辩称，在狱中的最低服刑期未能反映本案“有计划的犯罪性质”。
They argued the minimum period behind bars did not reflect the “calculated criminality” of the case.
麦克利什表示，从帕特森邀请他们吃午餐算起，她谋杀所有四人的意图持续了近三周。
McLeish said Patterson's intent to murder all four was sustained for almost three weeks from when she invited them to lunch.
这名法官表示，她的罪行涉及“一系列精心策划的欺骗”，包括谎称自己诊断出癌症，以解释她的两个孩子为何没有出席午餐。
Her crimes involved an “elaborate series of deceptions” including falsely claiming a cancer diagnosis to explain the absences of her two children from the lunch, the judge said.
唯一的幸存者伊恩·威尔金森作证称，埃琳·帕特森曾告诉客人们，她想听取他们的建议，看如何向孩子们告知她的诊断结果。
The only survivor, Ian Wilkinson, testified that Erin Patterson had told her guests she wanted their advice about what to tell the children about her diagnosis.
麦克利什指出，埃琳·帕特森销毁了证据，否认自己去野外采摘过蘑菇，并多次就蘑菇的来源谎报情况。
McLeish noted Erin Patterson had destroyed evidence, denied foraging for mushrooms and repeatedly made false claims about where the mushrooms had come from.
“这些违法行为是经过精心策划且蓄意进行的。这代表了一种残酷的信任背叛，”麦克利什说道。帕特森选择不出庭，通过监狱的视频连线观看了判决结果。
“The offending was carefully planned and deliberate. It represented a cruel breach of trust,” McLeish said. Patterson opted not to attend court and watched the verdicts by video link from prison.
由于臭名昭著，帕特森被关押在墨尔本达姆·菲利斯·弗罗斯特中心（Dame Phyllis Frost Centre）女子监狱戒备森严的戈登单元（Gordon Unit）。该单元专门关押经评估认为面临来自其他同监犯人极高风险的囚犯。
Because of her notoriety, Patterson is held in the high-security Gordon Unit of Melbourne’s Dame Phyllis Frost Centre women’s prison. The unit is for prisoners assessed as being at high risk from other inmates.
审判法官克里斯托弗·贝尔（Christopher Bale）在2025年9月对其判刑时表示，帕特森有“很大可能性”“在未来几年里被单独监禁”。帕特森分居的丈夫西蒙·帕特森（Simon Patterson）本被邀请参加午餐，但在前一天婉拒了。
In sentencing her in September 2025, trial judge Christopher Bale said there was a “substantial chance” that Patterson could be held in “solitary confinement for years to come.”Patterson’s estranged husband, Simon Patterson, was invited to the lunch but declined the day before.
定罪后，释出的审前证据详细描述了丈夫对艾琳·帕特森此前曾试图杀害他的怀疑。
After her conviction, pretrial evidence was released that detailed the husband's suspicion that Erin Patterson had previously attempted to kill him.
西蒙·帕特森在审前听证会上作证称，他出于恐惧拒绝了午餐邀请。
Simon Patterson testified at a pretrial hearing that he had declined the lunch invitation out of fear.