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Emily Woods

Murder trial told how death cap mushrooms become lethal

Various factors can affect whether toxins inside death cap mushrooms can kill, a toxilogist says. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Multiple factors can affect whether toxins inside death cap mushrooms kill those who consume them, Erin Patterson's triple-murder trial has been told.

This includes the person's age, weight, their tolerance to the mushroom's poison and the amount that they consume, toxicologist Dimitri Gerostamoulos told a Supreme Court jury in regional Victoria on Friday.

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