“Probably impossible” for the fatalities of fungal poisoning for deaths at mushrooms bought in the shop, Erin Patterson Trial hears | Victoria

A Victorian woman died by accidentally poisoning with fatalities in an incident in an incident that was served by Erin Patterson a year after the in -case of a beef lunch with the beef lunch served by Erin Patterson.

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 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 Victorian Supreme Court, who is sitting in Morwell, has previously heard that the guests died after they were poisoned with fatalities that were used in a paste used by Patterson to produce individual beef shaft 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.

Dr. Thomas May, an internationally known mushroom expert, continued his evidence in Patterson's legal proceedings on Wednesday.

May informed the court that he was familiar with a separate and non -related incident by the Victorian forensic doctor who concerns the death of a woman in May last year.

In this case, as the court heard, the woman chose mushrooms from the front of her house to eat herself and her son in the evening.

The next morning, according to information, she was sick from the findings of the forensic doctor who were read to the court.

“The deceased stated that the mushrooms were not good and that they have been vomiting for around 2 a.m.,” said Sophie Stafford, lawyer of Patterson, the court.

Her son also became uncomfortable, the court heard, but recovered. The results of the death were made without an investigation.

May informed the court that he had been contacted by the Gippsland Ministry of Health after death, as he should best react to the forensic doctor.

These recommendations in connection with more news in the field of public health about the dangers of eating wild mushrooms, despite annual warnings of the Ministry of Health.

May was also shown another series of photos of Stafford mushrooms. The photos consisted of 18 mushrooms, including a feather field, butter -like Kollybia, shaggy parasole and honey mushrooms that had properties that were similar to the death caps, although some of them were not known as toxic.

May was also asked for the smell of fatalities from deaths from death optics when checking the public prosecutor's office Nanette Rogers SC. He said that if they are fresh, they could smell pretty cute, but when he dried, “I find the smell very uncomfortable”.

Dr. Camille Truong, also mycologist, informed the court that she had not found the Morte mushrooms during two investigations of remnants of beef -Wellington -lunch that was available to her.

She agreed that she was Dr. Laura Muldoon, a toxicological registrar at Monash Health, said, who asked for help to identify the mushroom.

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July 29, 2023

Erin Patterson organizes lunch for the alienated husband Simon's parents Don and Gail Patterson as well as his aunt and his uncle Heather and Ian Wilkinson. Patterson serves beef Wellington.

July 30, 2023

All four lunch break are taken to the hospital with gastro -like symptoms.

August 4, 2023

Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson die in the hospital.

August 5, 2023

Don Patterson dies in the hospital. The police in Victoria searched for Erin Patterson's at home and interviewed them.

September 23, 2023

Ian Wilkinson is released from the hospital in the intensive care unit after weeks.

November 2, 2023

The police are looking for Erin Patterson's house again and she is arrested and interviewed. She is charged with three murder cases in relation to the death of Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson and the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson.

April 29, 2025

Murder process begins. The jury is established that charges are dropped because of attempts to murder her alienated husband Simon.

On Wednesday, pictures of CCTV and photos of a dehydrator for food were always shown. The pictures seemed to show that Patterson took part in the Koonwarra transfer station and disposed of a dehydrator for food.

The court previously heard that the public prosecutor claimed that Patterson had unloaded the dehydrator, which later contained her fingerprints and traces of mushrooms for fatalities to “hide what it had done”.

But Colin Mandy SC for Patterson said in his opening speech to the jury that she lied through the dehydrator because she was panicked because she accidentally poisoned her lunch guests.

“The public prosecutor says that she gave off the dehydrator, and that makes it guilty. She admits that. She admits that when she died on the same day on which one of the guests of lunch had died, she was interviewed by the police that she would get rid of the dehydrator.

“But you take these questions into account if you think about this problem: Why should you lie when you have a dehydrator when many people, including Simon Patterson, her husband and children and her Facebook friends, knew that she had one?

“She gives the lie, but think about why she should only lie for a day or something after talking to Simon about this dehydrator in the hospital? Why should she lie about it when she had posted photos of mushrooms in the dehydrator and talked to her Facebook friends about it?”

Mandy continued: “She also lied to the police about looking for food for mushrooms. She admits that.

“She was looking for mushrooms. Only so that we can make it clear, she denies that she has ever deliberately sought death capitation mushrooms.”

The attempt goes on.