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Mushroom cook Erin Patterson did ‘taste tests’ on kids, husband alleges

Emotional testimony by Crown witness Simon Patterson in the murder trial of his wife Erin, who has pleaded not guilty to deliberately poisoning elderly relatives with death cap mushrooms. 

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