Ms Patterson, wearing white pants and a grey jumper, was spotted making a nine-second bathroom stop at a regional service station the day after she hosted her fatal beef Wellington lunch.
The accused triple-murderer’s mobile was detected in regional towns at which poisonous mushrooms had been spotted in the months before her fatal beef Wellington lunch, a telecommunications expert says.
Bridgett Maddox, the former Slater + Gordon payroll manager identified in court documents as a suspect in a malicious email hoax against the law firm, has emerged from hiding.
Toxins from the poisonous mushrooms were found in debris extracted from Erin Patterson’s dehydrator.
Plant scientist David Lovelock found remnants of the poisonous mushrooms in samples extracted from her Sunbeam dehydrator, the court has heard.
Slater & Gordon was told within half an hour of becoming the victim of a malicious email attack that the culprit might be its former payroll manager Bridgett Maddox, a convicted fraudster, according to documents filed in a lawsuit against the firm.
The murder trial of Erin Patterson has heard from a forensic toxicologist, who was questioned over the toxins found in death cap mushrooms.
A juror has been discharged from the Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial after allegedly speaking with friends and family about the case, but the trial will continue. It has heard evidence from forensic toxicologist Dimitri Gerostamoulos.
The scientist who inspected the leftover beef Wellington stored the meal in her own fridge for more than 24 hours, but found no trace of poisonous mushrooms in the sample provided.
The operations manager of a local tip handed footage to police allegedly showing Erin Patterson dumping her dehydrator in an e-waste bin.
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