Triple murder accused also tells court she had a ‘stupid kneejerk reaction to just dig deeper, and keep lying’ to police after lunch guests died
Erin Patterson trial LIVE
Who are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?
Erin Patterson has denied deliberately foraging death cap mushrooms and weighing them to calculate the fatal dose for a person, but admitted a series of lies to police as homicide detectives investigated the fatal lunch.
On her fourth day in the witness box, Patterson’s cross examination started, and the jury was told the estimate for the trial had blown out by at least a fortnight.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/05/erin-patterson-mushroom-lunch-trial-cross-examination-death-cap-ntwnfb
Author : Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter
Publish date : 2025-06-05 04:13:00
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