Ian Wilkinson, the sole survivor of a fatal mushroom lunch, told a Melbourne court on Monday that he felt “only half alive” after losing his wife Heather and two of his closest friends.

FILE PHOTO: Ian Wilkinson, the sole surviving guest from a fatal lunch served by Erin Patterson who is accused of murdering three of her estranged husband's elderly relatives with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, arrives at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts in Morwell, Australia, June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/File Photo

THE lone survivor of mushroom cook Erin Patterson has forgiven her after she was found guilty of murdering his wife and two friends. Ian Wilkinson, 71, spent three weeks in intensive care after