Man survives deadly encounter with death cap mushrooms in wife’s bolognese

A man has recalled overcoming a near-fatal encounter with death cap mushrooms, which had been added to a spaghetti bolognese by his wife.

Erin Patterson has confessed to serving her former parents-in-law the toxic funghi during a meal where left three peope dead. 

A man has since come forward to say he too was served death cap by his wife 25 years ago.

The news that Patterson, 48, invited her former in-laws Gail and Don Patterson, both 70, as well as Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, and Heather’s husband Ian, 66, for lunch on July 29 and allegedly poisoned them has shocked a large portion of Australia.

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Gail and Don Patterson, along with Mrs Wilkinson, tragically died after ingesting beef Wellington during a lunch gathering at the Patterson property in Leongatha, located in the South Gippsland area of Victoria.

Meanwhile, Mr Wilkinson is still in serious condition in the hospital, waiting for a liver transplant.

Ms Patterson is accused of arranging for her estranged ex-husband, Simon Patterson, to join her at their old family property for mediation; however, her former partner did not attend the get-together. 

Now Mr Claringbold, from Canberra, has recently revealed a near-death incident he had when his wife accidentally served him death cap mushrooms for supper. 

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He was a healthy 39-year-old marathon runner who mistook the deadly mushrooms for field mushrooms in 1998.

On that specific occasion, his wife included these mushrooms in a spaghetti bolognese dish that he ate, despite the fact that his spouse and children did not.

The Mirror reports that he soon became extremely ill.

“I was vomiting and had diarrhoea and I sort of just tried to sleep it off. And the next day — so, two days after the poisoning — I went and saw the doctor,” he told ABC News. “He took one look at me and raced me to Canberra Hospital. And my wife gave me a part of the mushroom in a paper bag.

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“The liver specialist there looked at the mushrooms and basically said, ‘Oh yeah, that’s a death cap mushroom’. And they basically got me in an air ambulance and airlifted me to Royal Prince Alfred in Sydney. And I went into the acute liver ward. I was preparing for the end, I really thought it was the end. The lights were starting to go out.”

After 11 days fortunately his condition improved and he survived the ordeal.

He was told by a doctor that he was lucky as some mushrooms contain more toxins than others and he had eaten ones that did not kill him.

His revelation comes after Ms Patterson has now appeared to have gone missing after failing to meet with her lawyers. 

Ms Patterson told reporters just before 10am local time today that she was en route to visit her lawyers in Melbourne, but a representative of the law firm was then seen waiting outside Ms Patterson’s home around 5pm to hand deliver a letter from the firm.

The representative told Daily Mail Australia it was the only way Ms Patterson could be contacted after homicide squad detectives confiscated her phone and computer devices.

Her lawyers say they are concerned for her well-being amid the media firestorm outside her rural property.

The legal representative would not answer questions about the contents of the letter but he did concede it was unusual to have to hand deliver instructions to a client in this manner. Ms Patterson had still not returned to her home by nightfall, forcing the representative to leave without delivering his letter.

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