An alleged murderer testifying as a witness in their own defence is a rare strategy and normally a last resort.

The jury in the Supreme Court trial in Victoria state returned a verdict after six days of deliberations, following a nine-week trial that gripped Australia.

Australian woman Erin Patterson has been found guilty of murdering three of her relatives and attempting to murder a fourth by serving them a meal laced with deadly death-cap mushrooms. The meal, a beef Wellington served at her home in Leongatha,