Mummy Blogger Constance Hall Faces Backlash for Doubting Erin Patterson's Guilt After Trial

Mummy blogger Constance Hall has been called out for doubting that Erin Patterson was guilty of mass murder.

Patterson, 50, was found guilty on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder on Monday after serving her in-laws beef Wellingtons poisoned with death cap mushrooms at her Leongatha home on July 29, 2023.

Following the verdict, Constance said she didn’t think the mother-of-three looked ‘like the mushroom poisoning super villain’.

‘I mean, she just doesn’t look like the mushroom poisoning super villain that she ended up being… You really never can tell, can you,’ she wrote on Facebook.

She went on to say she didn’t think that uncovered message sent by Patterson which suggested she had very personal issues with Simon’s parents was hat bad.

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Famed blogger Constance Hall has been called out for defending Erin Patterson before she was found guilty of mass murder

‘I think my doubts stemmed from her messages… like if that was the worst they could get on her messages… well, I’d hate to see what they’d pin on me after reading mine,’ Constance wrote.

‘I mean, those messages revealed that she wasn’t a fan of the ex and his family, but that’s so common that it just doesn’t feel like a motive. Ugh, my heart goes out to those kids.’

Constance’s followers flocked to the comments to slam the social media influencer.

‘Do you honestly think they took two years to organise the case, sat for 10 weeks in court and took seven days to deliberate because all they were going off was a text message about her ex father and mother in law!? Seriously,’ one person wrote.

‘It was more than just text messages. The disposal of the phone and dehydrator, pretending she gave the leftovers to the kids, searching where to locate death cap mushrooms,’ another said.

‘What did you think a mushroom poisoning super villain would look like?’ a person questioned.

‘I never thought you would be one that would judge a book by the cover. Evil and goodness come in many shapes and forms,’ another commented.

One person wrote: ‘Scary how we can forget that monsters don’t look like monsters. The most dangerous people, perhaps, are the ones we don’t see.’

‘What do you mean doesn’t look [like a villain]? How can anyone know anything by how someone looks?’ another questioned.

Patterson previously pleaded not guilty to the murders of Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson.

They died after consuming death caps in the beef Wellingtons during lunch at Patterson’s Leongatha home in southeast Victoria on July 29, 2023.

Patterson faces a sentence of life in prison for the three murders and one attempted murder.

The families of the murder victims, who died in hospital days after eating lunch at Patterson’s home, were absent for the verdicts, as was sole lunch survivor Ian Wilkinson.

During the trial, Victoria Police forensic data analyst Shamen Fox-Henry found a series of messages sent by Patterson that suggested she had very personal issues with Simon’s parents.

In the messages, Patterson described her in-laws as a ‘lost cause’ and exclaimed ‘f**k them’.

‘I mean clearly the fact that Simon refuses to talk about personal issues in part stems from the behaviour of his parents and how they operate,’ she wrote around December 6, 2022.

Patterson faces a sentence of life in prison for the three murders and one attempted murder

‘According to them, they’ve never asked him what’s going on with us, why I keep kicking him out, why his son hates him, etc. It’s too awkward or uncomfortable or something. So that’s his learned behaviour. Just don’t talk about this s**t.’

Patterson claimed her father-in-law’s solution to her relationship problems with his son was to ‘pray’.

‘Don rang me last night to say that he thought there was a solution to all this. If Simon and I get together and try to talk and pray together,’ she wrote.

‘And then he also said, Simon had indicated there was a solution to the financial issues if I withdraw this child support claim?!’

Patterson claimed she told her in-laws she wanted them to be accountable for the decisions their son made concerning their grandchildren.

‘I would hope they care about their grandchildren enough to care about what Simon is doing,’ she wrote.

‘Don said they tried to talk to him, but he refused to talk about it, so they’re staying out of it, but want us to pray together.

‘I’m sick of this s**t. I want nothing to do with them. I thought his parents would want him to do the right thing, but it seems their concern about not wanting to feel uncomfortable, and not wanting to get involved in their son’s personal matters, are overriding that. So f**k them.’