Breaking Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial LIVE updates: Patterson is accused of lying about where she bought her ingredients – as she reveals how she ate 1kg of mushrooms before the fatal lunch EnglishHeadline

Patterson was reminded that telecommunications knowledgeable Dr Matthew Sorell gave proof her cellphone pinged close to a basestation which meant a doable go to to Loch on April 28.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson was in Loch on that date.

‘I do not know [if I was in Loch that day],’ she stated.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson went to a loss of life cap sighting zone beforehand posted on iNaturalist.

‘Incorrect,’ Patterson stated.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson learn the iNaturalist submit put up on April 18.

‘Disagree,’ Patterson stated.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson drove particularly to Loch discover loss of life caps on April 28.

‘Disagree,’ Patterson stated.

‘And I counsel you discovered some, then inside two hours went and purchased the dehydrator,’ Dr Rogers stated.

‘I did purchase that that day sure,’ Patterson stated, however denied she purchased it to dry loss of life caps.

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 understanding Don and Gail had been unwell.

Patterson claimed she did not know that.

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

In his proof, Patterson’s son stated she instructed him on Sunday evening his grandparents had been unwell.

Patterson agreed she ‘might have instructed him’ that.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson lied in regards to the leftovers.

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

Patterson has been quizzed on why she served her youngsters leftovers from a lunch regardless of being conscious some visitors had been sick.

‘It was the identical lunch sure,’ Patterson stated.

‘Regardless that you thought you had meals poisoning from the identical lunch?’ Dr Rogers requested.

‘I did not suppose that,’ Patterson stated.

Dr Rogers has prompt Patterson instructed varied well being officers, medical workers and police she served her youngsters the identical meal eaten by her lunch visitors.

Patterson stated it was minus the mushrooms and pastry so ‘it wasn’t the identical’ meal.

Dr Rogers additionally requested if Patterson knew some lunch visitors had been sick then why would she serve leftovers to her youngsters.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson lied about serving her kids the leftovers minus mushrooms and pastry.

The jury beforehand heard proof Patterson instructed baby providers officer Katrina Cripps she cooked two Wellingtons which she put apart for her youngsters.

Dr Rogers has prompt Patterson (pictured) lied to numerous medical workers about her kids consuming leftovers.

‘Incorrect,’ Patterson stated.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson was not involved about her kids’s welfare as a result of she knew they’d not consumed loss of life caps.

‘Incorrect,’ Patterson responded.

Dr Rogers additionally prompt Patterson knew her youngsters’ lives weren’t ‘in danger’.

The prosecutor beforehand requested Patterson if she requested a medical worker whether it is ‘actually vital [to bring the kids to hospital] as a result of they do not have signs’.

‘I most likely did,’ Patterson stated.

‘I did not suppose they’d eaten a deadly poison as a result of it was made clear to me the problem was mushrooms they usually’d not eaten the mushrooms.’

Patterson instructed the jury she needed to know the ‘concern and dangers to her youngsters’.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson should have realised the kids ought to come to hospital however ‘she did not take quick steps’.

Patterson was reminded her son and daughter stated they had been instructed they’d been served leftovers from the lunch.

‘As a result of mum stated it was leftovers,’ the son instructed police.

Patterson agreed along with his son that she had served him leftovers.

The daughter additionally instructed police ‘mum instructed me’ she was served leftovers.

‘I solely bear in mind telling the youngsters on the Sunday that it was leftovers,’ Patterson stated.

‘I do not bear in mind telling them something about it being lunch leftovers.’

A number of witnesses have instructed the jury Patterson stated she served her kids leftovers from the lunch however she had scraped the mushrooms off the meat.

Dr Rogers has accused Patterson (her authorized staff is pictured) of sending well being officers on a ‘wild goose chase’ as a result of she knew she had intentionally poisoned her visitors.

‘I have been very, very useful with the well being division… I’ve given them as a lot data as doable,’ Patterson instructed police throughout an August 5 interview.

‘I counsel you were not “very, very useful” to the well being division,’ Dr Rogers stated.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson as a substitute despatched the well being division on a ‘wild goose chase’.

‘You lied in regards to the supply of the loss of life cap mushrooms since you knew you had intentionally poisoned your lunch visitors,’ Dr Rogers stated.

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

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

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

Dr Rogers prompt the accused was ‘imprecise’ 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, right or incorrect?’ Dr Rogers requested.

‘Incorrect,’ Patterson replied.

Patterson had a second dialog with Ms Atkinson on the cellphone.

Patterson claimed she will be able to’t bear in mind the load however stated the packaging of the mushrooms was labelled with only a white sticker and was in a non-resealable snack-sized bag.

‘It was all hand-written,’ Patterson stated of the label.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson described the packaging in such a method to present the mushrooms weren’t commercially packed.

Dr Rogers requested if she instructed Ms Atkinson she purchased the loss of life caps from an Asian grocer.

‘I do not suppose I instructed anybody I purchased loss of life cap mushrooms from an Asian grocer,’ the accused stated.

Dr Rogers stated Patterson was instructed in regards to the public well being challenge by well being division officer Sally Ann Atkinson (pictured).

Nevertheless, Patterson claimed she will be able to’t bear in mind the dialog.

Dr Rogers accuses Patterson of remembering that dialog and mendacity to her in regards to the Asian meals store.

Dr Rogers additionally prompt Patterson by no means purchased any mushrooms from an Asian grocer and he or she knew there could be no financial institution file of any transaction.

Patterson was accused of constructing up the story about ‘probably’ utilizing money to buy the mushrooms as a result of she by no means purchased any from an Asian grocer within the months main as much as the lunch.

Patterson has been accused of concocting the Asian grocer story after studying in regards to the well being of her lunch visitors.

Simon’s brother Matthew additionally instructed Patterson he was in hospital along with his dad Don Patterson.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson knew Don’s life was at stake on the time.

‘Yeah, I knew that his well being, the remedy of him was essential,’ she stated.

Patterson stated she later spoke to Dr Veronica Foote (pictured proper) and Dr Rogers prompt the accused killer had ‘time to consider her story and added element in regards to the Asian grocer’.

Dr Rogers additionally accused Patterson of by no means having any authentic packaging of Asian grocer mushrooms and by no means purchased Asian grocer mushrooms for the Wellingtons.

Dr Rogers then prompt Patterson had no intention of discovering the Asian grocer the place she claimed to have purchased the mushrooms as a result of she was mendacity about shopping for dried mushrooms from an Asian grocer.

Patterson (pictured) agreed she instructed baby providers officer Dr Katrina Cripps she used dried mushrooms which had been ‘fairly pungent’.

Dr Rogers then reminded Patterson of the proof of fungi knowledgeable Dr Tom Might who stated dried loss of life caps had an ‘disagreeable’ odor.

‘I do not bear in mind them being disagreeable,’ Patterson stated earlier than admitting they’d a ‘sturdy odor’.

Dr Rogers requested Patterson if she talked about utilizing dried mushrooms to her lunch visitors.

Patterson stated there was no dialogue in regards to the substances of the meal.

Patterson denied she instructed Dr Chris Webster at Leongatha hospital about dried mushrooms or an Asian grocer.

Patterson stated the physician was mistaken.

Patterson agreed she instructed her brother-in-law on July 31 that she purchased the contemporary sliced mushrooms from Woolworths and dried mushrooms from an Asian grocer in Oakleigh.

‘Yeah I did (inform him these issues),’ Patterson stated.

Patterson, who’s at the moment carrying a pink prime, claimed she ate a kilo of mushrooms between July 23 and July 27.

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

‘Incorrect,’ Patterson replied.

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

Dr Rogers prompt that’s an ‘untruth’.

‘Disagree,’ Patterson stated.

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

Wednesday’s court docket proceedings have begun with Crown prosector Dr Rogers (pictured) suggesting to Patterson she may’ve sourced a complete eye-fillet ‘log’ however did not as a result of she needed to cook dinner particular person beef Wellingtons.

Patterson instructed the jury she requested her on-line Fb mates together with Jenny Hay for recommendation on methods to cook dinner the meat Wellington.

Patterson agreed she requested her mates methods to cease the Wellington from going soggy.

She agreed Ms Hay suggested her to wrap the meat in pastry as near placing it within the oven.

Patterson stated she used smaller cuts of eye-fillet as a result of she could not supply a whole log.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson may’ve sourced a complete eye-fillet log at a number of butchers or supermarkets in Korumburra and Leongatha.

Dr Rogers stated Patterson did not supply a log as a result of she needed to make smaller particular person Wellingtons.

Dr Rogers additionally requested Patterson in regards to the mushrooms.

‘I wasn’t planning on utilizing foraged mushrooms,’ Patterson stated.

‘I did not talk about all my cooking plans…’

‘I counsel your solely plan for the meat Wellingtons had been that loss of life cap mushrooms had been included, right or incorrect?’ Dr Rogers requested.

‘Incorrect,’ Patterson replied.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson (whose authorized staff is pictured) assisted police find the leftovers as a result of if she hadn’t instructed cops it might be ‘suspicious’.

‘Agree or disagree?’ Dr Rogers requested.

‘I would not agree,’ Patterson stated.

Dr Rogers prompt as a result of Patterson was caught at hospital, she had no alternative however to inform police the place the leftovers had been as she could not ‘do something’ with it herself.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson made a loss of life cap-laced beef Wellington for Simon which she threw within the bin someday after the lunch visitors left at 2.45pm and earlier than she introduced at Leongatha hospital at 9.45am.

The jury heard Patterson instructed police the leftovers from the lunch had been in an out of doors bin on the property.

Dr Rogers prompt police retrieved a Wellington minimize in half.

‘I disagree,’ Patterson stated.

‘[In the bin was] mushrooms and pastry from one full one and the mushrooms and pastry from [mine].’

Patterson denied she was conscious the binned leftovers contained loss of life cap mushrooms.

Patterson additionally denied getting ready a loss of life cap-laced beef Wellington and he or she denied getting ready a Wellington for Simon.

‘I did not make that sixth one for Simon,’ she stated.

Patterson stated she ready a sixth Wellington as a spare and threw it within the bin.

Dr Rogers requested what occurred to the steak which had been ready for the Wellingtons.

Patterson stated she eliminated the steak and put it in ‘my kids’s stomachs’.

Rogers prompt Patterson did not feed them that steak.

Dr Rogers requested if Patterson paused throughout a name between her and Simon about selecting up the youngsters as a result of if she picked up the kids it ‘would undermine you being unwell’.

Patterson denied this and claimed she paused as a result of she thought Simon had made a sarcastic remark.

‘”I am glad you are nicely sufficient to drive to Phillip Island”, he did it in a extremely sarcastic tone,’ she stated

‘I bear in mind the sarcasm, it was off-putting.’

‘Are you making this up as you go alongside Ms Patterson?’ Dr Rogers requested.

Earlier yesterday, the prosecutor instructed Patterson she was the one who requested the questions after the accused killer instructed Dr Rogers to carry on and return throughout a line of questioning.

Simon Patterson beforehand gave proof that his estranged spouse instructed him she went dwelling from the hospital to put on the ground for 45 minutes.

Patterson (pictured) stated she lay down for some time however not 45 minutes and he or she denied telling Simon that.

Dr Rogers, who prompt Patterson did not look unwell in CCTV footage on the hospital, accused Patterson of not laying down.

Dr Rogers stated telecommunications knowledgeable Dr Matthew Sorell’s evaluation of cellphone data counsel inside 20 minutes of leaving hospital, Patterson was in Leongatha about 8.55am after which her cellphone moved to Outtrim.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson lied about the place she went and what she did after leaving hospital.

Dr Rogers prompt Patterson spent her hour and 40 minutes out of hospital enthusiastic about ‘protecting your tracks’.

She additionally stated she by no means left her home in time between her hospital visits.

On Tuesday, Patterson agreed a go to was made on her laptop to a loss of life cap mushroom poisoning sighting submit on plant identification web site iNaturalist in Might 28, 2022.

Nevertheless, Patterson denied she remembers ever happening iNaturalist.

Dr Nanette Rogers SC (pictured) famous the submit in regards to 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.

The jury additionally heard Patterson say 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.

Erin Patterson will this morning enter the witness field for the seventh day in her personal marathon homicide trial.

Patterson has been a giant drawcard with individuals queuing up outdoors (pictured) the courthouse very early every morning to get a entrance row seat within the courtroom.

Dozens of members of the general public braved the fog and freezing temperatures on Wednesday morning as they awaited the start of Patterson’s seventh day on the stand.

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 making an attempt to homicide Heather’s husband, pastor Ian Wilkinson, who survived the lunch after spending a number of weeks in an intensive care unit.

The court docket 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 visitors, 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 may discover no proof of this.

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

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

Yesterday, Crown Prosecutor Dr Nanette Rogers SC indicated she had a few day-and-a-half of cross-examining of Patterson left to go.