Accused weighed fatal dose on kitchen scales, prosecutors say

Prosecutors claim that an Australian woman accused of killing their relatives with beef and Landton documents herself using kitchen standards to calculate a fatal dose of toxic mushrooms.

Eren Patterson acknowledged that he was not guilty of killing three people and trying to kill another at her home in Victoria in July 2023. The 50 -year -old says she had not intended to harm them and was not a tragic accident.

The prosecutors suggested on Thursday that the photos on their phone show that the wild fungi weighing are visualized to measure the amount required to kill their guests.

Mrs. Patterson told the court that she was likely to take the relevant photos, but she said that she did not believe that the mushroom was in death.

Mrs. Patterson, Don and Jill Patterson, both 70, along with the sister of Heather, Wilkenson, 66, are all sick and died days after lunch.

Heather’s husband, local priest Ian Wilkenson, was transferred to the hospital, but he recovered after he was recovered from a week -old coma.

I heard the prominent trial, which started almost six weeks ago, from more than 50 witnesses of the prosecution. Mrs. Patterson became the first defensive witness to take the situation on Monday afternoon.

Under the interrogation of the main public prosecutor, Mrs. Patterson admitted that she had suffered from wild mushrooms in the three months before the lunch of July, despite the police and a health official that she did not do so.

The photos were also shown on the photos, taken in late April 2023 and regained from Mrs. Patterson’s phone, which depicts the mushrooms weighing.

Ms. Patterson previously admitted that she had deleted electronic data over and over again in the days after lunch because she fears that if the officers find these pictures, they will blame them for the death of the guests.

He pointed to previous evidence from the fungus expert said that the mushrooms in the pictures were “very consistent” with death caps, Public Prosecutor Nanite Rogers claimed that Mrs. Patterson had made her a few days ago.

She had watched a post on Inaturalist – a website to record plant and animal scenes – and traveled to LOCH after ten days on April 28 to choose toxic fungi, as Dr. Rogers claimed.

Ms. Patterson said that she could not remember whether she had gone to the city that day, but she denied that she went there to find a death mushroom or that she saw the abnormal position.

“I suggest that this mushroom weigh so that you can calculate the required weight for … a deadly dose,” put it by Dr. Rogers.

“I do not agree,” Mrs. Patterson replied.

Two mother also talked about placing dried dried mushrooms in a group of foods such as spaghetti, cakes and calligraphy, which prosecutors claim to be a deadly lunch.

Ms. Patterson said this was not true, but rather an attempt to obtain “additional vegetables in the bodies of my children.”

The public prosecutors repeatedly asked her, in a different formulation every time, whether she intentionally used the same dry food to prepare the mushroom of the death cover for lunch.

CCTV, who was played in the trial, shows Mrs. Patterson getting rid of the device in a local emptying.

For this reason, you rushed, the next day to release you from [hospital]Dr. Rogers said: “To get rid of evidence.”

“No,” Mrs. Patterson answered.

Earlier, Mrs. Patterson’s lawyer asked her why she was repeatedly lied to the police about mushroom feed and has a food dryer.

She told the court: “A stupid knee reaction to the drilling was more deep and continued to lie,” she told the court. “I was afraid, but I shouldn’t do it.”

Mrs. Patterson also released her claim that she did not deliberately put the fungus in the meal.

She said that the mushrooms used in beef and Lengton had accidentally included dried varieties, which were kept in a container with parked varieties.

Mrs. Patterson was also interrogated about the evidence provided by other witnesses that she asked her guests to come to lunch to discuss health problems, which is the diagnosis of cancer.

She said that she did not say that she had cancer, but she still had to mislead her relatives, saying that she did it in part because their anxiety made her feel love.

“I suggest that you have never thought that you will have to calculate this lie about cancer because you think lunch guests will die,” said Dr. Rogers. “Your lies will not be discovered.”

“This is not true,” said Ms. Patterson.

It will resume to be examined on Friday. The judge told the court that the trial, which is expected to take six weeks, is now expected to run for at least two weeks.