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Emily Woods

Mushroom murder trial hears from public health official

Erin Patterson was hard to contact after the poisoned lunch, a health investigator has testified. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

Erin Patterson allegedly changed her story to a health investigator and became difficult to contact in the days after cooking a poisonous mushroom meal for her estranged husband's family.

The 50-year-old mother is facing her fifth week on trial in regional Victoria, charged with three murders and one attempted murder over a toxic beef Wellington she served up on July 29, 2023.

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