Erin Patterson, the 50-year-old Australian woman accused of killing her relatives with death cap mushrooms, told the court on Thursday that she did not knowingly dehydrate deadly death cap mushrooms or attempt to destroy evidence following the fatal lunch she served to her former in-laws.
Ms Patterson is charged with deliberately serving death cap mushrooms to her estranged husband’s parents Don and Gail Patterson, Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, and Heather’s husband Ian during a lunch at her home in Leongatha, Victoria. Ian Wilkinson was the only guest to survive after spending days in hospital. Ms Patterson has pleaded not guilty to murder.
