Trial of Australian woman accused of cooking fatal mushroom lunch begins

Australian women, accused of cooking fatal mushrooms, admit that they choose wild funky and lie to the police and dispose of evidence, but “tragedy” will claim to be “terrible accidents.”

Erin Patterson’s Supreme Court trial is expected to last six weeks on Wednesday at Mowell, a small Victoria village.

She was accused of three relatives and murders of others, focusing on beef Wellington lunch in her house in July 2023.

Patterson did not guilty, and her defensive team said that she was “embarrassed” after serving the poison to his beloved family.

Patterson’s former daughter -in -law Don Patterson (70) and 70 -year -old Gail Paterson and Gail’s sister HEALKINSON and 66 were killed in the hospital for several days after the meal.

After a few weeks of treatment at the hospital, local pastor Ian Wilkinson.

Beef Wellington, Mash potato and mung bean lunch contained death mushrooms, and the court heard that it was not competitive.

Judge Christopher Beale said, “The most important problem is whether she is intended to cause a very serious injury or serious injury.

The NANette Rogers SC prosecutor, which began trial on Wednesday, said, “I thought it was originally a mass food poisoning event.”

But after Patternson invited lunch, she invited “A measure diagnosed with cancer” and insisted “her guest” deliberately “deliberately” poisoned. “

Dr. Rogers said Jury said he would hear that Paterson traveled near the house in LEONGATHA.

And for a few days after lunch, the prosecution claimed that she took several actions to “conceal”.

There was evidence that she lied to the investigators on the source of mushrooms on the plate. It is said that it came from Melbourne’s Asian grocery store and never feeded the wild. And she said she traveled to a local dump to dispose of a food dehydration prosecutor.

Dr. Rogers told the jury, “What are you motivated?” “I will still be curious about this at the end of this trial.”

The prosecution will not suggest a particular motive, she explained.

“You don’t have to be satisfied with what you are motivated and even one.”

She said that the jury can testify from various witnesses, including Wilkinson, Paterson’s underprivileged husband Simon Patterson, medical staff who treated lunch guests, and police investigated.

However, defense reminded the jury that he had not yet heard the actual evidence when he opened the case and had to maintain an open mind.

Colin Mandy, a lawyer, said the prosecution would try to cast Patterson’s behavior after lunch.

“Can people say something that they don’t think well?

“The defense incident was embarrassed because she was overwhelmed by the fact that she was too sick because of her food.”

He said Patterson did not deliberately poisoned food to the guests.

“She didn’t try to harm someone on that day. What happened was a tragedy, a terrible accident.”