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And a relative read his words to the court.

"'His children have been robbed of hope for the kind of relationship with their mother that every child naturally yearns for.'"

And Ruth Dubois, one of the Wilkinson's daughters, named the broader victims.

Medical staff, investigators, shop owners, mushroom growers, the health department,

and taxpayers all pulled into the aftermath.

Quote, I am horrified that our family is even associated through no choice of our own with such destructive behavior towards the community, unquote.

And Erin gave almost nothing away.

And for most of the hearing, her eyes were closed.

And when they were open, she looked at nothing because she is nothing.

She's just an evil shit stain in this world who I hope is having a terrible time rotting in jail.

And Ian Wilkinson may have survived the lunch, but his body never came back to the way it had been before.

And his liver function remains diminished and respiratory problems followed him out of the hospital and never left.

And he lives in Victoria, supported by the same church community that had held him up for decades.

he lost his wife of 44 years and he lost the couple he had described as the closest people to him after his wife and family and quote my life is greatly impoverished without them and he told the court quote it's a truly horrible thought to live with that somebody could decide to take her life i only feel half alive without her unquote

Oh my God.

It's just so heartbreaking.

I just, I don't understand how someone could take somebody away like that.

It's just, it's so devastating.

And when given the chance to speak about the woman who poisoned him, he chose an unexpected path.

And that path was forgiveness.