{"id":280226,"date":"2025-09-08T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=280226"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:01:14","slug":"erin-patterson-to-receive-life-sentence-for-murder-with-non-parole-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=280226","title":{"rendered":"Erin Patterson to receive life sentence for murder with non parole period"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The judge has handed down his sentance to Erin Patterson.  She is to receive a life sentence for all counts of murder with a non parole period of 33 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erin will be eligible for parole at the age of 82 years (approximately).  She was born in Adelaide in 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge described the conditions of her incarceration and they sound incredibly bleak and morbid. I am not sure I agree with the sentence, only in the last 12 months (November 2024) an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=280303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Asian man was sentenced to prison for 14 years for the murder of 2 females in Melbourne<\/a>, he is expected to be paroled within 7 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erin&#8217;s sentence is extreme in my view as her daily outlook is awful as she will be in protection for years to come in the &#8220;Gordon Unit&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 years would have been a sufficient sentence with a non parole period of 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have teenagers attacking others with machete&#8217;s and they are oiut on bail.  It makes no sense to me whatsoever.  That sentence is extreme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin will be eligible for parole at the age of 82 years (approximately).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":248097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[17361,993,8],"class_list":["post-280226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-erin-patterson","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280310,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280226\/revisions\/280310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/248097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}