Mushroom trial
Erin Patterson murder trial day 33 as it happened: Accused mushroom cook lied to authorities and in witness box, prosecutor says in concluding argument; defence argues no intent, panic explains actions
Inside courtroom four in Morwell, Patterson, on trial for murder, listened intently as prosecutor Nanette Rogers, SC, concluded her closing argument, and defence barrister Colin Mandy, SC, commenced his.
- Marta Pascual Juanola and Erin Pearson
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‘Who would kill these kind people?’: Defence says lack of motive shows mushroom deaths were accidental
After an eight-week trial, Erin Patterson’s legal team found something to agree with prosecutors on – that her lunch guests were lovely people.
- Erin Pearson
Mushroom cook sat on her hands and peddled fiction while her family members died, court told
Prosecutors have begun their closing address to the jury by laying out the four “calculated deceptions” they say show Erin Patterson’s guilt.
- Erin Pearson
Erin Patterson murder trial: Accused ‘lied’ to multiple people, and repeatedly changed her story on sourcing mushrooms, prosecutor tells jury
Prosecutor Nanette Rogers, SC, is arguing to the jury that accused killer Erin Patterson faked a cancer diagnosis to her lunch guests and deliberately deviated from a beef Wellington recipe.
- Marta Pascual Juanola and Erin Pearson
A garden tour, small talk and an illness confession. The mushroom lunch according to Erin Patterson
The accused mushroom cook killer says the deaths of her guests were a terrible accident and from beginning to end police have misconstrued events that led to their deaths.
- Erin Pearson
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On the 31st day of exhaustive effort, the mushroom case witnesses finally rested
Long days and one-word denials came to symbolise the final days of evidence in the case of accused mushroom cook killer Erin Patterson.
- Tony Wright
Erin Patterson trial recap: What happened on each day of the death cap mushroom case
Patterson has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after allegedly serving poisonous mushrooms in a beef Wellington for lunch.
Erin Patterson murder trial as it happened: Disagree. Disagree. Disagree. Final denials in mushroom cook cross-examination
The lengthy cross-examination of Erin Patterson concluded today as the accused delivered her final denials and explanations to the prosecution’s pointed accusations before being re-examined by her own defence lawyer.
- Marta Pascual Juanola and Erin Pearson
Sighs after accused killer cook Erin Patterson is asked three final questions
Crown prosecutor Nanette Rogers’ final probing of Erin Patterson got to the heart of the case after 31 days in courtroom four of the Supreme Court at Morwell.
- Erin Pearson
As lunch guests sickened, mushroom cook fed her children leftovers, she maintains
Erin Patterson said she fed the beef Wellington leftovers to her two children for dinner on the day of the lunch, and that she didn’t believe there was any “real risk” to their safety.
- Erin Pearson
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