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And Simon's victim impact statement noted that his children live in an irreparably broken home with only a solo parent when almost everyone else knows their mother murdered their grandparents.

And the media hasn't let them breathe.

And the Patterson and Wilkinson family still carry the lasting damage of what happened.

And one of the victim impact statements came from Dawn Patterson's mother, and she was 100 years old.

She outlived her own son.

So Erin is serving her sentence at the Dame Phyllis Frost Center, a maximum security women's prison in Melbourne.

And she spends at least 22 hours of every day inside her cell.

But the case isn't over and two appeals sit before the Victorian Court of Appeal.

And Erin filed them on November 3rd, 2025, seeking to have the guilty verdicts quashed and a retrial ordered.

And the point at the center of her case is during deliberations, the jury panel was booked into the same accommodation where police and members of the prosecution team were also staying.

And she argues that arrangement alone constituted a fundamental irregularity that fatally undermined the integrity of the verdicts.

And she raised multiple grounds, challenges to the phone tower evidence and iNaturalist data linking her to death cap mushroom locations.

A claim that Facebook messages from her private group should have been excluded from the trial.

In an argument, Justice Beale erred by refusing to admit images and videos from an SD card found at her home.

And an allegation of unfair and oppressive cross-examination by the prosecutor.

and a charge that the prosecution shifted its position on motive between its opening and closing addresses, having opened with no motive and then implied one.

The prosecution filed its own appeal earlier on October 6th, 2025, arguing the sentence was manifestly inadequate.

And prosecutors contend Justice Beale erred in finding a substantial chance Aaron would remain in solitary confinement for years, and that this finding infected his assessment.

of the non-parole period.

Both sides must first seek leave to appeal.