Breaking Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial LIVE updates: Heated moment in Erin Patterson murder trial as judge is forced to intervene when witness and defence lawyer clash EnglishHeadline

Justice Christopher Beale has intervened and warned Erin Patterson’s defence barrister Colin Mandy SC and well being official Sally Ann Atkinson to cease speaking over one another.

Justice Beale instructed Ms Atkinson to only reply the questions put to her and stated the prosecution would deal with any problems with unfair remedy throughout re-examination.

Ms Atkinson and Mr Mandy each apologised and the cross-examination continued with questions on whether or not Patterson had beforehand used dried mushrooms she claimed she purchased from an Asian retailer in Melbourne earlier than the lethal lunch.

‘You say she wasn’t clear if she’d used them earlier than,’ Mr Mandy (pictured beneath along with his affiliate Sophie Stafford) requested.

‘It was unclear,’ Ms Atkinson stated.

Mr Mandy then requested the well being division official about her Phrase doc and notes relating to the packaging of the dried mushrooms.

‘(Patterson) suggested that she didn’t have the packaging as a result of it wasn’t resealable packaging, (Patterson) threw it out and put in a Tupperware container,’ Mr Mandy learn from the Ms Atkinson’s doc.

In keeping with the Phrase doc, Patterson stated ‘they smelt a bit humorous and (she) determined to not use them for that meal and put them again within the pantry’.

‘She determined to not use all of them, she probably used a small quantity and put the remainder within the Tupperware container,’ Ms Atkinson stated.

Ms Atkinson stated it was ‘complicated’ as as to whether or not Patterson had used the dried mushrooms within the lunch she ready.

Ms Atkinson accepted Mr Mandy’s assertion that this wasn’t in her notes.

The well being officer defined that her notes say she had put the mushrooms again within the pantry ‘till she deliberate to make use of them once more’.

Mr Mandy additionally urged that though Patterson had deliberate to make use of the mushrooms, she determined to not and didn’t use them.

‘It wasn’t 100% clear that was the case,’ Ms Atkinson stated.

Lead defence barrister Colin Mandy SC (pictured) is cross-examining Ms Atkinson about her function within the mushroom investigation.

Mr Mandy is testing the notes the Division of Well being officer took whereas speaking with Patterson.

Ms Atkinson informed the jury she took ‘scribble’ notes which she transcribed to an ‘energetic, reside Phrase doc’ about an ‘hour or two’ later.

Mr Mandy questioned Ms Atkinson about precisely when Patterson claimed she purchased the lunch components.

‘The attention-fillet tenderloins had been on sale as a result of they had been at finish of the use-by date,’ Ms Atkinson stated Patterson informed her.

‘The best way the dialog went, every thing was purchased on Friday,’ Ms Atkinson stated.

Ms Atkinson additionally produced a duplicate of the assertion she made to murder detectives on August 29.

‘Erin acknowledged that almost all of the mushrooms got here from Leongatha Woolworths,’ Ms Atkinson stated in her police assertion.

Mr Mandy highlighted there was no date given by Ms Atkinson in her notes on when Patterson purchased her mushrooms.

‘My reminiscence was, and is, that almost all of the components had been bought on the Friday,’ Ms Atkinson stated.

‘She might have purchased the mushrooms on a special day.’

The well being division’s Sally Ann Atkinson informed the courtroom she had no additional contact with Patterson after August 4.

Patterson, who’s immediately sporting a inexperienced high with a brown cardigan, listened as Ms Atkinson stated the well being division investigation, which kicked off on July 31, 2023, concluded on August 1.

The jury heard a proper report was ready.

‘From an outbreak like this (it’s regular to arrange a report),’ Ms Atkinson stated.

Ms Atkinson learn from the report.

She stated the investigation deemed the outbreak was an ‘remoted incident’.

‘It is extremely unlikely the business mushroom provide chain was contaminated with amanita (poisons),’ Ms Atkinson stated was written within the report.

Ms Atkinson additionally stated there have been no ‘points’ discovered with the opposite meals served within the lunch and the danger to the general public was deemed ‘low’.

The officer additionally famous ‘no meals remembers had been deemed warranted’.

The Victorian Division of Well being’s Sally Ann Atkinson (pictured beneath) informed the jury she believed the demise cap mushroom poisoning outbreak was ‘fairly uncommon’ earlier than messages between her and Erin Patterson had been revealed in courtroom.

The well being officer additionally stated she needed to get the lethal mushrooms off the cabinets of shops in the event that they ‘existed’.

Patterson has claimed she had bought button mushrooms from an area Woolworths in addition to dried muhsrooms from an unamed Asian retailer in Melbourne.

Ms Atkinson stated she tried to name Patterson on August 1 earlier than texting her at 3.50pm that very same day.

She requested for particular details about the lunch she served her visitors together with any drinks and components used.

‘I have to know what drinks had been served, I have to know what shallots had been used,’ the well being officer wrote.

Ms Atkinson informed Patterson she wanted ‘extra exact details about the packaging’ of the mushrooms in addition to ‘any roads you had been parked on or (had been) close to these shops’.

‘Simply issues to consider after I want to talk to you once more,’ Ms Atkinson ended her message.

Patterson responded at 4.08pm on August 2.

‘Hello Sally I’ll attempt to get that info all to you as quickly as doable,’ she wrote.

‘I’m simply coping with attempting to handle and take care of the youngsters in hospital right here and a bit snowed underneath attempting to handle that.

‘I’ll get this information to you as quickly as I can however I’ve simply been in a few conferences with individuals on the hospital if you’ve been attempting to name.’

Ms Atkinson despatched a return message to Patterson barely a minute later and requested concerning the youngsters.

‘Yeah they’re high-quality thanks,’ Patterson responded at 4.11pm.

‘Very glad to listen to that,’ Ms Atkinson instantly replied.

Ms Atkinson stated she additionally tried to name Patterson later that night however there was no reply. She stated she left a voicemail and obtained no return name.

Ms Atkinson stated Patterson despatched a textual content message once more in a while August 2.

‘She’d informed me she’d purchased every thing on the Friday night, (the) texts conflicted with earlier assertions,’ Ms Atkinson informed the courtroom.

Ms Atkinson despatched Patterson a message again: ‘Hello Erin, I’ve taken a few images of zip-lock sort baggage with simply white labels on them.’

The jury heard Ms Atkinson then despatched Patterson images of mushrooms in zip-lock baggage.

‘Are you able to inform me please if both of these sizes appears to be like about proper and whether or not the label dimension appears about proper to you,’ she wrote.

The jury heard Patterson circled one of many zip-lock mushroom bag photos and responded.

‘Trying on the dimension and quantity of issues within the grocery store I realise there is no manner it might have been 100g price,’ Patterson wrote.

‘I used to be enthusiastic about the burden of that quantity of recent I believe, however dry (mushrooms) weigh lots much less.

‘Sure that retailer doesn’t look acquainted however that fashion of packaging and labelling is precisely what I meant.

‘They weren’t complete like these shitake mushies within the images, they had been sliced. And sure the packaging was about half the scale of that.’

Ms Atkinson then requested Patterson to talk to her on the cellphone.

Patterson responded: ‘Certain.’

The pair spoke once more at about 11.20am on August 3.

The jury heard the pair mentioned the cooking course of surrounding the lunch she served her visitors.

Ms Atkinson and Patterson additionally communicated concerning the mushrooms she used within the beef Wellington.

The courtroom heard Patterson stated the mushrooms had been sliced however not darkish.

She stated that they had the same color to button mushrooms.

Patterson additionally despatched two texts to Ms Atkinson describing the pastry she used for the meat Wellington.

‘Hello Sally I used a mix,’ Patterson wrote.

‘It was all Pampas puff pastry from Woolworths. I had some already within the freezer and used that up and I additionally purchased some extra from Woolies that week I imagine.

‘It was both simply the essential Pampas puff pastry or the Pampas butter puff pastry.’

A second textual content learn: ‘Oh I additionally used filo pastry, it comes as a roll in a blue field from the freezer part of Woolies. I purchased that new.’

Erin 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 which included demise cap mushrooms.

Patterson can also 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 of the lunch from a smaller and otherwise colored plate than these of her visitors, who ate from 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.

Victoria’s well being division declared the demise cap mushroom poisoning was ‘remoted’ to Patterson’s lethal lunch.

A number of witnesses, together with Simon Patterson, Ian Wilkinson and different relations, have given emotion-charged proof to the jury.

Medical workers have informed the jury of the painful signs the dying lunch visitors and Mr Wilkinson suffered.

An skilled witness informed the courtroom demise cap mushrooms had been detected in particles taken from a dehydrator Patterson had dumped at an area tip.

Telecommunications skilled Dr Matthew Sorell additionally informed the jury that Patterson’s cellphone was detected close to areas in Outtrim and Loch the place demise cap mushrooms had been noticed.

Victoria Police Cybercrime Squad senior digital forensics officer Shamen Fox-Henry stated he discovered proof of a demise cap mushroom on information from a pc seized from Patterson’s Leongatha dwelling on August 5, 2023.

On Friday, Austin Hospital intensive care director Professor Stephen Warrillow informed the jury he was on the Melbourne well being facility in July 2023 when the poisoned lunch visitors had been transferred to his care.

Professor Warrillow stated all sufferers obtained intense remedy and Don obtained a liver transplant.

On Monday, a protester ambushed the trial demanding to understand how Justice Christopher Beale ‘might be a choose’.

The person (pictured beneath) sporting a yellow T-shirt with the slogan, ‘All we’re saying is give reality an opportunity’ went on a rant simply after the jury re-entered the courtroom.

‘Mr Beale how may you be a choose if you rig courtroom instances,’ the person yelled.

Detective Main Senior Constable Stephen Eppingstall, the police informant within the Patterson trial, approached the person and walked him out of the courtroom.

The trial resumed with out additional interruption.

After lunch Wilkinson sat in courtroom and listened as particulars of his spouse died from demise cap poisoning had been aired in courtroom.

The jury additionally heard the textual content exchanges between well being division officer Sally Anne Atkinson and Patterson within the days after the lethal lunch as authorities rushed to unravel the reason for the outbreak.