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Mr Mandy requested Patterson about foraging for mushrooms and messages to Simon.

Patterson mentioned between June 2021 and December 2022 the one alternative she needed to forage was in Autumn of 2022.

Patterson claimed she foraged ‘a handful of instances’.

Mr Mandy requested about that date vary as a result of the jury heard Patterson and Simon exchanged 4,000 messages in that interval.

The jury heard no messages about foraging had been despatched to Simon in that interval as a result of it was a really small window to forage.

Mr Mandy additionally requested Patterson if she ever foraged for mushrooms in December 2022.

Mr Mandy highlighted 600 pages of Fb messages for 2 weeks between December 5, 2022 and December 19, 2022 which had not one point out of foraging.

‘It might be extremely unproductive [to forage in December],’ Patterson mentioned.

Patterson additionally mentioned she had been in New Zealand together with her youngsters in December 2022.

Patterson additionally mentioned out of 4,000 messages she ‘nearly by no means’ knowledgeable Simon what she and the youngsters had been consuming.

Mr Mandy (pictured far proper with authorized group) requested Patterson why she made six Wellingtons.

Patterson mentioned she had sufficient meat, pastry and different elements to make six.

‘I had sufficient for an additional… and thought I might eat it one other day,’ Patterson mentioned.

Defence barrister Colin Mandy SC has commenced re-examining his consumer.

Mr Mandy requested Patterson about her proof relating to the ENRICH Dermatology & Beauty Clinic in South Yarra.

Patterson was reminded she mentioned she had a pre-surgery appointment for a gastric bypass booked in on the clinic on September 13, 2023.

Mr Mandy reminded Dr Rogers recommended the clinic did not provide weight-loss or gastric bypass surgical procedure.

A press release offered to the courtroom by a consultant of the clinic declared the clinic solely provided examinations for pores and skin, hair and nails.

Patterson instructed the jury she might have been wanting into having liposuction.

Mr Mandy offered proof as we speak Patterson made calls to the clinic on April 19 and Could 31, 2023.

Patterson mentioned she believed the clinic provided weight-loss surgical procedure choices.

Patterson mentioned she understood her appointment was to debate her choices, however she cancelled the appointment and by no means attended for a session.

An SMS from the clinic despatched to Patterson on September 11, 2023, asking her to verify her appointment was learn to the courtroom.

Mr Mandy additionally produced a screenshot of a web site web page for the clinic which mentioned a health care provider on the clinic had stopped providing liposuction as a remedy possibility for sufferers as of June 30, 2024.

Patterson mentioned she was mistaken the clinic provided gastric bypass surgical procedure.

Dr Rogers instructed Patterson she’d be ‘blissful’ to know she solely has three remaining questions.

The prosecutor requested Patterson if she intentionally sourced loss of life caps.

‘Disagree,’ Patterson mentioned.

Dr Rogers requested Patterson did she put the loss of life caps within the beef Wellington.

‘Disagree,’ Patterson replied.

‘And did so aspiring to kill them, agree or disagree?’ Dr Rogers requested.

‘Disagree,’ Patterson mentioned.

Dr Rogers has concluded her cross-examination of Patterson.

The courtroom is on a brief break earlier than lead defence barrister Colin Mandy SC (pictured) will start re-examining his consumer.

Dr Rogers claims Patterson (pictured) was nonetheless utilizing Telephone A on the morning of the August 5 police search.

‘I do not know, I doubt it,’ Patterson mentioned of utilizing information that morning on Telephone A.

The jury heard between 12.01pm and 1.45pm, Telephone A died.

Dr Rogers recommended Patterson eliminated the sim from Telephone Some time police had been at her home.

‘Disagree,’ Patterson mentioned whereas denying she had the telephone at the moment.

Dr Rogers recommended Patterson handed over Telephone B – one other Samsung Galaxy a23 with the quantity ending in 835 – as a result of she knew it had no information on it.

Patterson denied this declare.

‘[Police] requested for my telephone and I gave it to them,’ Patterson mentioned.

The jury heard Patterson manufacturing facility reset Telephone B thrice together with a distant reset whereas the telephone was saved in a safe locker at Murder Squad HQ.

Dr Rogers recommended Patterson reset Telephone B as a result of she did not need police to understand it wasn’t her main telephone.

‘I recommended… this was all about hiding… concealing Telephone A from police,’ Dr Rogers recommended.

Patterson is proven a CCTV nonetheless from Leongatha Hospital wherein she is depicted holding a telephone in a pink case.

‘That is telephone A,’ Dr Rogers mentioned.

Patterson mentioned she used the quantity ending 783 which had been linked to telephone A – a Samsung Galaxy a23 – till August 12.

Dr Rogers recommended Telephone A had been in use since February 2023 and Patterson accepted it had been her main system.

The prosecutor then accused Patterson of utilizing Telephone A to analysis loss of life caps and search for Dr Tom Could’s iNaturalist put up.

‘I did not see that put up,’ Patterson replied.

Dr Rogers accused Patterson of hiding Telephone A – which has by no means been recovered by police – however she denied hiding the system.

Patterson claimed she manufacturing facility reset Telephone A as a result of the system ‘wasn’t reducing it’.

Dr Rogers recommended there was nothing fallacious with the telephone however Patterson denied this declare.

Dr Rogers additionally recommended a police search picture which depicted a black system Patterson claims is Telephone A was one other lie.

Patterson has denied she lied about Simon (pictured) asking her if her dehydrator was the equipment which ‘poisoned my dad and mom’.

Simon, in his proof, denied saying this.

Dr Rogers recommended Patterson lied so she had an evidence for dumping the dehydrator.

‘I disagree,’ Patterson mentioned.

Dr Rogers recommended Patterson lied about stopping for a roadside bush poo on the way in which again from the cancelled flying lesson in Tyabb the Sunday afternoon after the lunch.

The jury heard Patterson’s son mentioned his mom ‘appeared okay’ through the drive and was apprehensive about needing to make use of a rest room however by no means stopped to go.

Dr Rogers recommended Patterson’s son could not recall the bush poo as a result of it by no means occurred.

‘I disagree,’ Patterson mentioned.

Patterson is accused of mendacity about consuming natural tea the morning after the lunch.

The jury heard Patterson’s son mentioned his mum was consuming espresso the morning after the lunch.

‘You say he is mistaken?’ Dr Rogers requested.

‘I imagine he is made an assumption,’ Patterson mentioned.

Patterson agreed someone with diarrhoea would in all probability not drink espresso however denied mendacity in regards to the natural tea.

Dr Rogers additionally recommended Patterson lied about taking Imodium to deal with her signs.

‘Disagree,’ Patterson mentioned.

Dr Rogers (pictured) recommended Patterson was ‘hedging her bets’ and making up a number of totally different sources for the loss of life caps.

The made-up tales Dr Rogers alleged Patterson concocted included that she sourced dried mushrooms from an Asian grocer.

Patterson, who’s as we speak carrying a black high with white polka dots, has been proven pictures of mushrooms taken between April 23 and Could 5 in 2020.

Dr Rogers requested Patterson if she ate any of the mushrooms within the pictures or fed any to her kids.

The accused mentioned she will’t bear in mind.

Patterson agreed it ‘seems to be possible’ she drove to Loch South on Could 22 or 23, 2023.

However she denied visiting Loch South to forage for loss of life caps.

Dr Matthew Sorell (pictured) gave proof a telephone ping additionally probably put Patterson in Outtrim on Could 22.

The jury heard fungi knowledgeable Dr Tom Could – below the deal with Funkey Tom – posted a loss of life cap sighting onto iNaturalist in Could 2023.

Dr Rogers on Wednesday recommended Patterson learn Dr Could’s iNaturalist put up and went to Outtrim on the lookout for loss of life caps.

Patterson disagreed and mentioned she will’t bear in mind ever going to Outtrim in Could 2023.

Dr Rogers additionally recommended telephone data present Patterson ‘did not historically journey to Loch and Outtrim’.

‘I do not know,’ Patterson replied.

Patterson was reminded about proof she gave the place she went foraging for mushrooms together with her kids.

‘I feel they even discovered a pair [of mushrooms] for me at one level,’ Patterson beforehand instructed the jury.

Dr Rogers reminded Patterson of her son’s proof the place he mentioned he’d by no means been foraging or looking for mushrooms along with his mum or dad.

The son mentioned he remembered seeing mushrooms rising whereas on walks along with his mum and sister in 2020 and 2021 however did not bear in mind selecting any.

The son mentioned his mum took a photograph of a wild mushroom however he mentioned ‘he by no means knew’ his mum to go foraging or selecting wild mushrooms.

Patterson’s daughter additionally mentioned she’d by no means gone selecting mushrooms and had by no means seen one whereas together with her mum.

Dr Rogers recommended Patterson’s kids by no means knew her mum to forage for wild mushrooms.

‘I counsel this can be a story you’ve gotten made up for this jury, agree or disagree?’ Dr Rogers mentioned.

‘Disagree,’ Patterson replied.

The prosecution has alleged Patterson lied in regards to the leftovers to provide her ‘distance from a deliberate poisoning’.

Dr Rogers requested Patterson why she served the meal to her youngsters realizing Don and Gail had been sick.

Patterson claimed she did not know that.

Patterson mentioned the youngsters had been ‘confused’ about why Don and Gail (pictured) had been sick.

In his proof, Patterson’s son mentioned she instructed him on Sunday night time his grandparents had been unwell.

Patterson agreed she ‘might have instructed him’ that.

Dr Rogers recommended Patterson lied in regards to the leftovers.

Dr Rogers additionally recommended Patterson instructed a number of individuals she scraped mushrooms off and that is why they weren’t sick.

Dr Rogers (pictured) confirmed Patterson a map of the Monash Council LGA.

Patterson’s son mentioned he and his sister stayed of their mum’s Mount Waverley condo in March or April of 2023.

Dr Rogers recommended Patterson was ‘very acquainted’ with Mount Waverley and its surrounding areas.

Dr Rogers recommended the accused was ‘obscure’ in regards to the suburb of the place the Asian store was and saved altering her story.

‘That is as a result of the Asian grocery retailer was a deliberate lie, appropriate or incorrect?’ Dr Rogers requested.

‘Incorrect,’ Patterson replied.

On Wednesday, Patterson claimed she ate a kilo of mushrooms between July 23 and July 27.

Dr Nanette Rogers recommended Patterson bought 1.75kg of mushrooms between July 23 and July 27.

‘Incorrect,’ Patterson replied.

Patterson mentioned the quantity was a kilo-and-a-half and she or he ate one kilo and used the remainder of the mushrooms for the Wellingtons.

Dr Rogers recommended that’s an ‘untruth’.

‘Disagree,’ Patterson mentioned.

Dr Rogers recommended Patterson had twice the quantity of mushrooms the RecipeTin Eats recipe known as for and there was no want so as to add further mushrooms.

Erin Patterson will this morning enter the witness field for what is predicted to be her eighth and remaining day on the stand in her personal marathon homicide trial.

Patterson has been a giant drawcard with dozens of members of the general public braving the chilly to queue up exterior (pictured) the courthouse very early every morning to get a entrance row seat within the courtroom.

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 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 instructed the jury Patterson ate her serving from a smaller, differently-coloured plate than these of her company, who ate off 4 gray plates.

Patterson instructed authorities she purchased dried mushrooms from an unnamed Asian retailer within the Monash space of Melbourne, however well being inspectors might discover no proof of this.

Final week, Justice Christopher Beale instructed the jury it was attainable the trial might go on for one more couple of weeks.

Justice Beale mentioned as soon as proof is accomplished, he could have authorized discussions with the events whereas the jury is out, earlier than closing addresses can start.

Crown Prosecutor Dr Nanette Rogers SC mentioned yesterday she’s going to full cross-examining Patterson as we speak.