Erin Patterson says she made herself sick after meal

An Australian woman says to be tried on charges of murder that she threw the toxic mushroom meal that killed her relatives, after eating desserts.

Erine Patterson acknowledged that he was not guilty of four charges – three murder and one of the attempts to kill – for the lunch of cow and Lington at her regional Victorian home in July 2023.

Prosecutors claim that Mrs. Patterson deliberately served the fungus of the toxic death, but only for her guests. Its defense team says that the contaminated meal was a tragic accident, and it claims that they made their customers also sick.

On her third day of her testimony, Mrs. Patterson told the court that she had ate only a small part of lunch and consumed two thirds of the cake, before vomiting.

Ms. Patterson also admitted that she had lied about cancer diagnosis – which prosecutors say she used to persuade the guests at her home – because she was very embarrassing to tell them that she was actually undergoing weight loss surgery.

Three people died in the hospital in the days that followed the meal, including the former Mrs. Patterson foals, Don Patterson, 70, Jil Patterson, 70, as well as the sister of Jill, Heather Wilkenson, 66.

One lunch guest, the local priest Ian Wilkenson, survived weeks of hospital treatment.

I heard the trial of the Victorian Supreme Court – which started nearly six weeks ago – from more than 50 witnesses, and attracted great global attention.

In the Mourwell court, Mrs. Patterson presented a detailed description of the deadly lunch, saying that she invited her guests under the hypothesis that she wanted to talk about health issues.

The 14 -member jury had heard that Mrs. Patterson had gone through a “long process of trying to determine what to cook” to have lunch before choosing to make cow meat and Lenton.

She said that the dish – which is usually with a long strip of the fillet slice, is wrapped in pastry and mushrooms – was something made by Mrs. Patterson’s mother when she was a child, to celebrate special occasions.

In the morning of lunch, Mrs. Patterson told frying of some garlic, lever and many mushroom trays purchased from the supermarket that was accurately cut in a dining processor.

She said, “It has been cooking for a very long time.” “You have to come out almost all the water,” she added, so the mushroom will not make pastries.

She said, “As I was cooking it, I tasted it several times and looked a little bit for me.”

At this stage, she decided to add some dried mushrooms that she bought from an Asian grocery in Melbourne several months ago and stored in a container in her store.

In response to a question about whether this container may have other types of mushrooms, Ms. Patterson, who suffocates, said: “Now I think there is a possibility that there will be some types.”

Yesterday, the court heard that Mrs. Patterson had started searching for mushrooms in locations near her home in Lyongatha in 2020, and her long -term love of mushrooms expanded to include wild mushrooms because they are “more flavorful.”

Mrs. Patterson told the court that she had served food and ordered her guests to seize a plate on themselves while completing the preparation of the broth.

She told trial that there are dedicated seats or panels.

Mr. Wilkenson told the experience that the guests had been given all gray paintings while Mrs. Patterson ate an orange.

Under the interrogation of the defense lawyer, Colin Mandy, Ms. Patterson said she had no gray paintings, instead black paintings, white panels and red panels are included on top and black under it.

During lunch, Ms. Patterson said she did not eat much of her food – “a quarter, a third, somewhere there” – because she was busy speaking.

After leaving the guests, she cleaned the kitchen and ate a slice of orange cake brought by Gail, then “another piece, and another piece” before the rest of the cake was finished.

She said, “I felt the disease … more than necessary, so I went to the toilets and returned it again.”

“After I did it, I felt better.”

Yesterday, the court heard that Mrs. Patterson had struggled with the pathological evil since adolescence and was subject to dining and vomiting regularly after meals.