Simon Atkinson
Senior Producer, Australia at BBC
News producer, video journalist, occasional writer - helping cover Australia, NZ & Pacific for the BBC. Dad jokes and proud.
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3 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Tiffanie Turnbull |Katy Watson |Simon Atkinson
Ms Patterson's in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, along with Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, all fell ill and died days after the lunch. Heather's husband, local pastor Ian Wilkinson, was also hospitalised but recovered after coming out of a weeks-long induced coma. Simon Patterson, the accused's estranged spouse, had been invited too, but pulled out the day before.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Tiffanie Turnbull |Katy Watson |Simon Atkinson
Nearly six years after he fled the U.S. in the midst of a civil lawsuit in San Diego, Michael James Pratt pleaded guilty to two criminal charges in …
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3 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Lana Lam |Katy Watson |Simon Atkinson
Deadly mushroom cook weighed fatal dose on kitchen scales, says prosecutorLana Lam, Katy Watson and Simon AtkinsonReutersErin Patterson, 50, says she didn't intentionally put death cap mushrooms in the meal An Australian woman accused of murdering relatives with beef Wellington documented herself using kitchen scales to calculate a lethal dose of toxic mushrooms, prosecutors allege.
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3 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Lana Lam |Katy Watson |Simon Atkinson
Ms Patterson's in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, were all hospitalised after eating beef wellington at the lunch and died several days later. Ian Wilkinson, the uncle of Ms Patterson's estranged husband, also fell seriously ill but survived after weeks of treatment.
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1 month ago |
bbc.co.uk | Sarah Turnnidge |Simon Atkinson
Image source, HandoutImage caption, Eli Sweeting was reported missing after failing to return from a solo hike Search efforts for a British hiker who has been missing for more than a week in New Zealand have been "paused", police have said. Eli Sweeting, 25, who is originally from Bristol, was reported missing on 4 May after failing to return from a solo hike up Mitre Peak, a steep mountain on the country's South Island.
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