‘You knew how suspicious it would look’: Erin Patterson makes series of denials in tense cross-examination

Erin Patterson’s cross-examination continued in the murder trial involving a lunch she served at her home in regional Australia that contained deadly mushrooms and killed three people. Composite: AP/Guardian Design

Erin Patterson says she is “puzzled” that a clinic in which she said she had an appointment for a gastric bypass offers no such surgery, and denies lying about making herself vomit in the hours immediately after the beef wellington lunch, a court has heard.

In her sixth day in the witness box, Patterson was repeatedly asked under cross-examination by prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC whether she was lying about the deadly lunch and other parts of her evidence before her triple-murder trial.