Mushroom expert who discovered the deaths near Erin Patterson's house provides evidence in the triple murder process | Victoria

An internationally known mushroom expert who discovered death capital near Erin Patterson's house has started his triple murder process.

Dr. Thomas May, a mycologist or scientist who specialized in mushrooms, appeared in Patterson's process on Tuesday.

The 50 -year -old Patterson has not guilty, three charges for murder and an indictment of attempted murder in relation to lunch, which she served on July 29, 2023 in her house in Victorias Leongatha.

Patterson is accused of having murdered the parents of their alienated husband Simon, Don and Gail Patterson, his aunt Heather Wilkinson, and tries to murder Ian Wilkinson, Simons uncle and Heather's husband.

The Court previously heard that lunch died after they were poisoned with death fungi that were used in a paste paste paste to produce individual beef shaving tons.

The public prosecutor claims that Patterson has deliberately poisoned her lunch guests with “murderous intentions”, but her lawyers say that the poisoning is a tragic accident.

May informed the court on Tuesday that the mushrooms were the most frequently reported in May, and outlined the three known sightings of die mushrooms in the Gippsland region and the “Citizen Science” website Intatateralist, which is often used to report sightings.

Nanette Rogers SC for the public prosecutor's office told the jury in her opening speech last month, which May published on Innaturalist about a discovery of mushrooms for deaths under his profile name “Funkeytom” in May 2023.

The contribution about Innotorist, a publicly available place that needs a profile to publish observations, included photos and GPS coordinates within about 20 meters, where May discovered the fatalities in Neilson Street, Outtrim, Rogers told the jury.

In her declaration of opening, she said that the public prosecutor claims that Patterson's phone data indicates that she had traveled to Outtrim's area after May. The page is about 20 km from your house in Leongatha.

May said he came across a short walk to the death mushrooms after talking to a community group in Outtrim about mushrooms.

He said that he took photos, latitude and length and geo-coordinate in his post, but not on the specific street.

He was also shown two photos of mushrooms on scales, of which he said that he agreed to the mushrooms of death capital, and another he said seemed to be commercially grown button mushrooms.

In the cross -interpretation of Sophie Stafford for Patterson, May said that young mushrooms could also be the fatalities of the fatality and not the greenish or brownish color, which is shown in mature specimens.

He said there were also mushrooms with white gills such as death caps that were non -toxic mushrooms.

The jury was also shown on Tuesday with remains of the beef -wellington -lunch photos that were transported to Melbourne with Patterson via the ambulance.

It also heard from two other witnesses who said Patterson told them that the mushrooms used in beef were partly related to an Asian food dealer.

Dr. Varuna Ruggoo, an emergency doctor at Monash Health, who rated Patterson on August 1, 2023, said she was clinically good at that time.

She said that Patterson's review, which was carried out by a colleague earlier that day, came to the conclusion that “there was no evidence of a kind of liver toxicity and that it was stable to be released”.

Notes from the same colleague showed that Patterson did not suffer from Amanita Phalloides – Master Master Mushroom – Poison, said Ruggoo.

The attempt goes on.