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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter

Foraged mushrooms, fatal doses and food binges: the week Erin Patterson told her story to triple murder trial

A court sketch drawn from a video link shows Erin Patterson giving evidence in her homicide trial
Erin Patterson faced questions this week in the trial over a lunch she served at her home in regional Australia that contained deadly mushrooms and killed three people. Photograph: Anita Lester/AAP

In Erin Patterson’s telling, the moment she realised she could be blamed for harming her in-laws came before they even died.

According to evidence Patterson gave at her triple-murder trial this week, she was in a Monash hospital room alone with her estranged husband, Simon, after their two children had left to buy food from a vending machine, when he asked her: “Is that how you poisoned my parents, using that dehydrator?”

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