Three online friends Erin Patterson met through a true crime Facebook group gave evidence that she thought her estranged husband was ‘demanding’ and at times put his church before their family.
Simon Patterson has denied quizzing Erin Patterson about using a food dehydrator to poison his family while she was in hospital.
The court heard in granular, perhaps embarrassing detail of how the marriage between Erin and Simon Patterson was not quite right.
The jury has been shown a messaging exchange in which Erin Patterson became very upset after believing she was not invited to Gail Patterson’s 70th birthday party; as estranged husband Simon continues to give evidence.
Erin Patterson repeatedly pushed her estranged husband to attend a lunch at her home — where three of his relatives would later die — saying she had spent a ‘small fortune’ on beef eye fillet.
A civil engineer who lost his mum and dad, prosecutors say, to the calculated actions of a woman he’d known intimately for decades, Simon Patterson battled to contain himself while recounting their final moments.
Simon Patterson details fallout with estranged wife over school fees and child support, and told her he ‘felt uncomfortable’ coming to lunch that left three guests dead.
Erin Patterson lured her estranged husband’s relatives into her home to serve them poisoned beef Wellington, then lied about serving the same meal to her own kids, prosecutors allege.
Diarrhoea, vomiting; a sad – often crippling – road to illness. Finally, the case against Erin Patterson had been made public.
Erin Patterson lured four lunch guests to her home under the guise of a fake cancer diagnosis, serving them beef Wellington on different coloured plates to her own, and disposed of a food dehydrator to conceal the crime, a court has been told.
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