Accused mushroom chef Erin Patterson’s home is broken into on Christmas Day – as thieves make off with haul of goods from her Leongatha property
Erin Patterson's two-storey home is broken into by thieves as the accused mushroom chef spends Christmas alone behind bars.
The alleged thieves were caught on CCTV entering the property in Leongatha, in Victoria's Gippsland region, on Christmas Day.
They are accused of stealing a car, a TV and vacuum cleaners and removing CCTV cameras from the house, which has been burglarized three times in the past month.
Ms Patterson's friend shared a photo of one of the alleged vandals on social media.
A man is seen on the porch of the property wearing a black hoodie, cap and a mask covering his nose and mouth.
“A friend's house in Leongatha has been burglarized three times in the last month, the last time being on Christmas morning,” the friend said.
Erin Patterson is seen returning to her home in Leongatha on August 8, before she was hit with three murders and five attempted murders
The alleged thieves were caught entering the property in Leongatha, in Victoria's Gippsland region, on Christmas Day (pictured)
Ms Patterson's friend shared a photo of one of the alleged vandals on social media (pictured)
'This time they stole a car, TVs and vacuum cleaners. I was finally able to track down CCTV footage from the second time they broke into the property and removed all the cameras from outside.
'The police caught a number of offenders in the first burglary where they stole a lot of items and we now believe they took all the spare keys, car keys etc and were not recovered by the police at the time.
“They apparently passed the keys on to friends so they could move in and out of the house as they pleased.”
Ms Patterson is currently housed in the safeguarding wing of the Dame Phyllis Frost Center in Melbourne's western industrial suburbs.
She was one of 40,600 prisoners who spent Christmas in 116 prisons in Australia.
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