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Mr Patterson lost his parents Don and Gail because of the meal cooked by his wife, a lunch that he too would have eaten, had he not declined the invitation at the last minute.

The judge said Patterson "showed no pity" for her victims in the days after the lunch, as those who had eaten her toxic meal fought for their lives in hospital.

Sun-warmed papaya, halved and neatly wrapped in plastic, beckoned to be eaten.

"Any other 40-year-old man who had not drunk or eaten anything for days would be treated very quickly but with David there was none of that," she said.

Large-scale renewable energy projects and human sprawl have eaten away at Joshua tree forests.