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Reason Erin Patterson was fired from air traffic control job revealed
Jul 7, 2025
Erin Patterson was branded 'crazy' by colleagues before being fired from her job as an air traffic controller for lying about her working hours.
Patterson, 50, was found guilty on three counts of murder and one of attempted murder on Monday after serving her in-laws beef Wellingtons poisoned with death cap mushrooms at her Leongatha home on July 29, 2023.
In her late 20's, she had worked at Airservices Australia and trained with traffic control course number four in Melbourne between February and November 2001.
The murderer, whose maiden name was Scutter before marrying Simon Patterson in 2007, was secretly nicknamed 'Scutter the Nutter' among her training group.
'Something was not quite right, she was a bit strange,' a coursemate who asked not to be named told The Herald Sun.
The source described Patterson as 'super secretive' about her life, claimed she was also dubbed 'crazy Erin' by her peers and that 'she would say some weird off-the-cuff things … she wasn't a nice person, she just wasn't someone you connected to'.
Another colleague, who had managed Patterson, said she was counselled about her disheveled appearance and that there had been concerns raised by a different workmate that she had placed a blade from a pencil sharpener in a banana.
'Again, no one could prove that, but she had a way about her that was off-putting,' the colleague told The Australian.
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