
By PAUL SHAPIRO AND WAYNE FLOWER FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
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Comply with Day by day Mail Australia’s reside protection of accused mushroom chef Erin Patterson‘s homicide trial at Latrobe Valley Magistrates’ Court docket in Morwell, Victoria.
Patterson claims she requested physician about loss of life caps
Dr Rogers requested Patterson if she requested Dr Webster any questions concerning the loss of life caps.
‘I undoubtedly tried to ask questions, sure,’ Patterson stated.
‘I requested questions and he did not reply them… nicely he could not have heard me.
‘I bear in mind saying to him, on the very least, “why do you assume we have eaten loss of life cap mushrooms?”.’
Dr Webster gave proof Patterson by no means requested something about loss of life caps.
He beforehand informed the jury the triage nurse came visiting and he walked off.
Patterson then discharged herself towards medical recommendation.
Dr Rogers stated Dr Webster tried to name Patterson 3 times.
‘I attempted to (reply),’ she stated.
Patterson claimed she known as the hospital twice however could not get by.
She additionally denied blanking his calls and voice messages
‘I did attempt to reply twice,’ she stated.
Patterson denied physician’s claims he requested her the place she purchased the mushrooms
Patterson stated she introduced at Leongatha Hospital with signs of gastro on July 31.
Patterson stated Dr Chris Webster (pictured) greeted her on the emergency centre and recognised her because the chef of the meal.
The jury heard Dr Webster gave proof he stated he informed Patterson her lunch visitors had been significantly unwell with suspected loss of life cap mushrooms and he requested the place she purchased the mushrooms.
Patterson denied the physician requested concerning the mushrooms.
‘Until he did the second time, however I do not recall him asking me the primary time [I presented at hospital],’ Patterson stated.
Patterson stated the physician informed her they wanted to present her therapy for suspected loss of life cap mushroom poisoning.
‘I informed him my identify… and he knew I used to be Erin Patterson… I bear in mind him saying to me “did you make the meat Wellingtons or did you purchase pre-made [Wellingtons]?”,’ Patterson stated.
‘That caught in my thoughts as a result of I did not realise you can purchase pre-made… he requested me the place I purchased the elements and I stated “Woolworths”.’
Patterson additionally denied Dr Webster’s proof she by no means requested any questions on loss of life cap mushrooms.
Questions over Patterson’s rest room visits
Dr Rogers steered when Patterson was informed the flying lesson was postponed to 4pm it was ‘one other alternative to cancel the lesson’.
Patterson agreed however they pushed on with the lesson and left Leongatha about 2.30pm on Sunday.
Patterson agreed her son stated she by no means wanted to cease to make use of the bathroom on the best way to the lesson which Patterson stated was a 70-minute drive.
Patterson denied saying it was ‘unfair’ she needed to drive an hour earlier than the lesson was cancelled at 3.48pm.
Patterson stated she complained concerning the cancelled lesson.
‘That’s undoubtedly true,’ Patterson stated.
Dr Rogers reminded Patterson of her son’s proof the place he stated his mum turned the automobile round they usually stopped at a donut van in Koo Wee Rup on the best way dwelling.
The jury heard Patterson’s youngsters bought the meals whereas she stayed within the automobile and her son purchased her a espresso.
Patterson was requested what she did with the espresso her son purchased.
She stated she drank a bit bit and would possibly’ve thrown it out when she acquired dwelling.
Patterson’s son additionally stated his mum by no means stopped to make use of a rest room on the best way again from the flying lesson.
Patterson refutes estranged husband’s proof
Patterson agreed she was ‘eager’ for her son to attend his scheduled flying lesson in Tyabb on Sunday afternoon.
‘I used to be fairly eager to take him (to the flying lesson),’ Patterson stated.
Patterson stated they allowed about 90 minutes to drive to the lesson.
Nevertheless, earlier than the scheduled lesson, Patterson additionally agreed she spoke to Simon (pictured) twice on the cellphone on Sunday.
Dr Rogers reminded Patterson that Simon informed her that her lunch visitors had been sick in hospital.
Patterson agreed she informed Simon on Sunday she had diarrhoea.
Patterson disagreed she informed Simon she had started getting sick on Saturday afternoon.
The jury beforehand heard Simon stated Patterson informed him she was feeling sick and had diarrhoea on Saturday night and could not drive her son’s buddy dwelling.
‘It was free bowel actions,’ Patterson stated.
Dr Rogers requested Patterson if she agreed she had diarrhoea which began ‘mid-afternoon Saturday and all through the evening’.
‘I do not recall that…,’ Patterson stated.
‘I didn’t inform him I used to be afraid to poo my pants, no.’
Prosecutor calls Patterson a ‘liar’
Patterson has denied she lied about needing to go to the bathroom incessantly on the Sunday morning after the lunch.
Dr Rogers additionally steered Patterson was mendacity when she stated her son stated he was first to say having a ‘sore tummy’ and never with the ability to go to church.
‘He stated that first,’ Patterson stated.
Dr Rogers then known as Patterson a liar.
The prosecutor stated Patterson’s son stated he did not discover his mum going to the bathroom.
‘No, I do not agree,’ Patterson stated.
Patterson informed the jury she was going to the bathroom ‘immediately and incessantly’.
Dr Rogers reminded Patterson her son stated he would not go to flying classes if she was sick, however that Patterson was ‘persistent to go’.
‘Yeah I most likely was, sure,’ Patterson responded.
Patterson cannot recall telling her youngsters she was feeling sick after the lunch
Dr Rogers reminded Patterson her son stated there was no point out of her being sick on Saturday July 29, 2023.
Patterson was additionally requested if she informed her son or his buddy she was sick.
‘I do not bear in mind if I did or I did not nevertheless it’s extra doubtless I did not,’ Patterson stated.
‘I undoubtedly would not inform [son’s friend I was sick].’
Patterson stated she did not bear in mind telling her daughter she was sick on the Saturday additionally.
Patterson stated she heard her son give proof she had diarrhoea on Sunday morning.
Patterson agreed she informed her son she had diarrhoea on Sunday.
Patterson accused of mendacity
Dr Rogers steered Patterson (pictured) lied about how a lot she ate and that she vomited after the lunch to present a purpose as to why she wasn’t as sick as the opposite visitors.
Patterson claimed ‘she did not have a tape measure’ about how a lot she ate.
Dr Rogers stated ‘it was all lies’.
Patterson did not inform anybody she vomited after lunch
Dr Rogers steered to Patterson there have been no leftovers from the lunch.
‘Incorrect,’ Patterson stated.
Dr Rogers reminded Patterson in her proof she stated she solely ate a ‘quarter to a 3rd’ of her beef Wellington and ‘someday that afternoon’ she ‘brought on herself to vomit’.
‘I had no thought what was within the vomit,’ Patterson stated.
‘In any respect?’ Dr Rogers requested.
‘Properly, it is vomit, how are you going to inform what’s in it, until it is a piece of bean or corn?’ Patterson stated.
Patterson agreed she did not inform anybody between July 29 and August 1 she vomited.
Patterson stated she could not bear in mind what time she vomited however agreed it was within the ‘afternoon someday’.
Patterson accused of mendacity to medical workers
Dr Rogers steered she ate all her beef Wellington however lied to Dr Rhonda Stuart and stated she had solely eaten half to try to clarify why she wasn’t as sick as her visitors.
Patterson denied the suggestion and claimed she could not bear in mind any dialog with Dr Stuart.
Patterson additionally denied she informed youngster companies officer Katrina Cripps she solely ate a part of her Wellington to mislead medical workers.
‘My reminiscence is I solely ate about half,’ Patterson stated.
Dr Rogers then took Patterson to Ms Cripps’ proof.
The courtroom heard Ms Cripps recalled Patterson indicated ‘did not eat all of it’.
Patterson denies she ate a beef Wellington with out loss of life caps
Patterson has denied she served herself a beef Wellington which didn’t include loss of life cap mushrooms.
Dr Rogers informed Patterson Ian Wilkinson’s (pictured left) supply to plate meals was ‘firmly rejected’ however withdrew the query after defence barrister Colin Mandy SC objected.
Patterson then agreed she plated the meals and other people sat the place they appreciated.
Dr Rogers steered Patterson intentionally served loss of life cap mushrooms to her visitors.
‘I disagree,’ Patterson responded.
Patterson denied she served herself a beef Wellington on a smaller plate.
The accused killer additionally denied her beef Wellington didn’t include loss of life caps.
Patterson stated she could have eaten from her daughter’s kindergarten plate however could not make certain and that plate did not match the outline Mr Wilkinson gave in his proof.
Patterson and prosecutor in heated alternate
Dr Rogers (pictured left) was about to alter matters when Patterson interrupted and informed her she wished to return to a earlier line of questioning.
An irate Dr Rogers did not settle for Patterson’s proposal.
‘Earlier than you do [move on], Dr Rogers, inside this file is that second go to to Bricker Reserve that I used to be speaking about…,’ Patterson stated.
‘I am the one who asks the questions,’ Dr Rogers fired again.
‘If there’s one thing that must be clarified in re-examination then your barrister will achieve this.’
Patterson was fascinated about ‘toxicity’ of loss of life caps
Patterson informed the jury she was within the ‘toxicity’ of loss of life caps.
‘My solely curiosity ever was to see in the event that they lived in South Gippsland or not,’ Patterson stated.
Patterson once more stated she could not bear in mind utilizing the iNaturalist website.
‘Anyone did and that any individual may have been me,’ she stated.
Patterson was requested if she seemed up the Korumburra pub web site not lengthy after the iNaturalist search was detected.
‘It seems like any individual did sure,’ Patterson.
‘Three minutes after any individual did.’
Dr Rogers requested Patterson if she steered her son could have seemed up the pub web page.
‘I am not suggesting something,’ Patterson stated.
Patterson claims she will’t bear in mind ever utilizing iNaturalist
Patterson (Patterson’s authorized group pictured) agreed a go to was made on her laptop to a loss of life cap mushroom poisoning sighting publish on plant identification web site iNaturalist in Could 28, 2022.
Nevertheless, Patterson denied she remembers ever occurring iNaturalist.
Dr Rogers famous the publish concerning the loss of life cap mushroom was that they had been sighted in Moorabbin which isn’t in Gippsland.
‘I counsel you had an curiosity in loss of life caps usually which was not restricted to rising in Gippsland,’ Dr Rogers stated.
‘Incorrect,’ Patterson responded.
‘You say you bear in mind asking if loss of life caps grew in South Gippsland?’ Dr Rogers requested.
Patterson accused of mendacity about weight-loss surgical procedure
Patterson, who’s right now sporting a paisley high, was requested if she had a pre-surgery appointment for a gastric bypass at a clinic in Melbourne on September 13, 2023.
‘I believed it was completely different suburb… [the date] sounds about proper,’ Patterson stated.
Patterson stated she later cancelled her appointment.
Dr Rogers requested if Patterson was conscious the centre did not present gastric bypass or gastric sleeve surgical procedures.
‘It was associated to weight-loss surgical procedure… I used to be additionally liposuction,’ Patterson stated.
Dr Rogers steered Patterson was mendacity concerning the appointment.
‘No it wasn’t a lie, that is what my reminiscence was,’ Patterson stated.
Patterson insists she requested how Don and Gail had been doing after consuming lethal meal
On Friday, Patterson claimed she talked to Simon about how Don and Gail had been.
‘I counsel you didn’t ask him… you didn’t ask how Don was,’ Dr Rogers (pictured) steered.
‘We mentioned how Don and Gail had been, that is how I came upon they had been in hospital,’ Patterson stated.
Patterson claimed this occurred throughout a cellphone dialog.
Dr Rogers steered ‘there was no dialogue about Don and Gail being in hospital’.
‘There was a dialog, sure,’ Patterson stated.
Dr Rogers steered Patterson by no means requested how Don was doing.
‘Disagree,’ Patterson replied.
‘And by no means requested about Gail,’ Dr Rogers stated.
‘Disagree,’ Patterson replied.
‘Do you keep you requested Simon at this level how Don was?’ Dr Rogers requested.
‘I am unable to bear in mind the precise phrases of that dialog,’ Patterson replied.
‘We had a dialogue about their well being … we had been discussing how Don was.’
‘Did you ask or not ask how Don was?’ Dr Rogers stated.
‘Yeah I’d have,’ she stated
‘And did you ask how Gail was?’ Dr Rogers requested.
‘Appropriate,’ Patterson replied.
Dr Rogers steered Patterson by no means requested Simon how Don and Gail had been.
‘I disagree,’ Patterson stated.
Patterson accused of being ‘two-faced’
Dr Rogers steered to Patterson (pictured) that she did not love Don and Gail.
‘Appropriate or incorrect,’ Dr Rogers requested throughout courtroom proceedings on Friday.
‘Incorrect,’ Patterson stated tearfully.
‘I really like them loads, they’ve at all times been actually good to me, I believe Simon hates that I nonetheless had a relationship together with his mother and father.’
Dr Rogers pressed additional.
‘That is what you informed police that you just “beloved his mother and father”, that is not true, I counsel you had been indignant that they took Simon’s facet,’ Dr Rogers stated.
‘That is not true,’ Patterson replied.
‘In reality you had two faces,’ Dr Rogers steered.
Dr Rogers accused Patterson of getting a ‘public face’ of how she introduced herself as loving of Don, Gail and to different household however her ‘non-public face’ of how she actually felt was contained inside her Fb messages.
‘I counsel your non-public face is the one you present in a personal message group,’ Dr Rogers requested.
‘Incorrect,’ Patterson replied.
‘And that is the way you felt about Simon,’ Dr Rogers steered.
‘Incorrect,’ Patterson stated.
‘And (Simon) wasn’t an honest human being,’ Dr Rogers steered.
‘Truly, I nonetheless imagine that,’ Patterson stated.
Simon Patterson: ‘Is that the way you poisoned my mother and father’
Patterson was final week reminded concerning the dialog she had with Simon (pictured) on the Monash Medical Centre the place he stated, ‘is that the way you poisoned my mother and father utilizing that dehydrator’.
The dialog occurred after Patterson discovered folks had been getting therapy for loss of life cap posioning.
Dr Rogers took Patterson to her earlier solutions.
Patterson was reminded that she stated she dried foraged mushrooms within the dehydrator weeks earlier and put them right into a jar.
‘And I simply acquired actually scared,’ she stated on the time.
‘Frantic,’ Patterson stated upon arriving dwelling.
Patterson agreed that was her proof.
Prosecution allege Patterson had poisonous beef Wellington ready for estranged husband
Dr Rogers steered Patterson lied to Simon about her medical points as a result of she wished him on the lunch to ‘poison him’.
‘No, that is not true,’ Patterson stated.
Dr Rogers steered Patterson made a toxic beef Wellington for Simon ‘in case he turned up’.
‘No, that is not true,’ Patterson stated.
Dr Rogers steered when Simon did not present on the lunch she dumped his beef Wellington.
Patterson informed the jury she put the pastry and mushrooms within the bin
Patterson quizzed on messages about in-laws
On Friday, Patterson was proven a message she wrote to her Fb associates on December 7, 2022, the place she mentioned that if Simon wished to stroll away from his obligations, then it is ‘a blessing in disguise’.
Patterson can be reminded of the ‘this household I swear to f***ing God’ message.
Crown prosecutor Dr Nanette Rogers steered to Patterson this ‘expressed your true emotions’.
Patterson was additionally reminded of the ‘f*** them’ message.
‘That is what you considered Don, “f*** them”,’ Dr Rogers stated.
‘I remorse writing that,’ Patterson stated.
Dr Rogers additionally steered Patterson was indignant at Don and Gail (pictured) for not taking her facet over Simon’s.
‘I wasn’t indignant however I used to be pissed off and harm,’ she stated.
Patterson stated she wasn’t indignant when she wrote the ‘f*** them’ message.
Patterson additionally denied she was indignant when she wrote these messages to her Fb associates.
The courtroom additionally heard one other message the place Patterson described Simon as a ‘deadbeat’.
Patterson to entrance up for day 6 within the witness field
One other massive viewers has arrived on the Morwell courthouse the place accused killer Erin Patterson will face her sixth day within the witness field.
Patterson has been a giant drawcard with folks queuing up outdoors (pictured) the courthouse very early every morning to get a entrance row seat within the homicide trial.
Patterson, 50, is accused of murdering her in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, after allegedly serving them a beef Wellington lunch made with loss of life cap mushrooms.
Patterson can be accused of trying to homicide Heather’s husband, pastor Ian Wilkinson, who survived the lunch after spending a number of weeks in an intensive care unit.
The courtroom heard Patterson’s estranged husband, Simon, was additionally invited to the gathering at her dwelling in Leongatha, in Victoria’s Gippsland area, however did not attend.
Witnesses informed the jury Patterson ate her serving from a smaller, differently-coloured plate than these of her visitors, who ate off 4 gray plates.
Patterson informed authorities she purchased dried mushrooms from an unnamed Asian retailer within the Monash space of Melbourne, however well being inspectors may discover no proof of this.
Final week, Justice Christopher Beale informed the jury it was doable the trial could go on for one more couple of weeks.
Justice Beale stated as soon as proof is accomplished, he can have authorized discussions with the events whereas the jury is out, earlier than closing addresses can begin.
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