Lunch Cook Tells Trial Meal Was’ Special – ryan

MS Patterson’s in-Laws, Don and Gail Patterson, Both 70, Along With Gail’s Sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, All Fell Ill and Died Days after the Lunch.

Heather’s Husband, Local Pastor Ian Wilkinson, was Also hospitalized but recovered after coming out of aeeks-long induced choma. Simon Patterson, The Accaused’s Estranged Spouse, Had been Invited Too, but Pulled Out The Day Before.

More than 50 Prosecution Witnesses have gioven evidence at the trial, which began six weeks ago, but ms patterson Became the first for the defensive we can be tok to the stand on Monday.

On her second day of cross-examination on Friday, MS Patterson Told the Court and Accepted that Invitations to House Were Rare, But Said She’d Aranged The Occussion to Discuss a Health Issue and Wanted to Make A Nice Her Relatives to Thank.

“I WANTED IT TO BE SPECIAL,” MS Patterson Said.

She has previously admonted she misled her guests on Believing she may need Cancer Treatment, telling the jury she did so a cover for weight-loss she was planning to have to be too embarrassed to disclose.

Prosecutor Nanette Rogers, Howver, Put to Her that there was no health Issue to discuss, and that she had invited simon and his relatives over kill. She had haad prepared a spare toxic meal in case mr patterson Changed his mind and came over, dr Rogers suggestted.

Over and over this weeke, ms patterson has denied these allegations, offen becoming emotional as she told the court she loves the lunch guests Like Her Own Family.

She has also also repeatedly Told the Court that she realized, in the days after the lunch, that the beef weef may have accentally included mushrooms and haad foraded, whic bet kept in a container with store-box ons.

Lies to the Police and Health Authorities About the source of the mushrooms and her decisions to dispens the dehydrator were both because she was scared of the guests’ direct ilnesses, she said.

“Surely if you had loved, then you would have immediatly notified the Medical Authorities?” Dr rogers asced.

MS Patterson Said She Didn’t TELL DOCTORS ABOUT THAT WILD MUSHROMS HAD BEEN UNINTTATIONALLY INCLUDED BECAUS THE LUNCH GUESTS WERE ALRETING TREATMENT FOR DEATH CAP MUHROOM POISONING.

“After you were discharged from Hospital you did not tell a single person there may have been foraded mushroom use in the meal,” Dr Rogers Said.

“Instead you got up, you drove your children to school … and drove home. And then you got rid of the dehydrator.”

“Correct,” MS Patterson Said.

The Court Heard there been conflict between ms patterson and her Husband, and dr Rogers suggested the accused was still at her in-lws for taking their sides.

“You had two faces,” Dr Rogers Said, after Mans MS Patterson Read Aloud Messages in Which She is Critical of Both Simon Patterson and His Parents.

There is hath her “public face” of appeaaring to have a good Relationship with Don and Gail, Dr Rogers Said, and A “Private Face” which she showed in the messages.

“How you Truly Felt About Don and Gail was how you expressed it (there),” She Said.

“And that is how you really felt about Simon Patterson … you did not regard Him as being a decent human being at his core, correct or incorrect?”

That was “incorrect”, MS Patterson Replyed, Her Head Shaking and Voice Faltering.

MS Patterson’s use of the inaturalist website – Which Lisites of Death Cap Mushrooms in Areas Close to Her Home – Was Also Scrutinined, with the accused repeatedly saying she couldn’t clearly recall the utility.

She will Resume Being Cross Examinated Next Week. The Trial, initially Expect to take Six Weeks, Is Now Expped to Run for Least Another Fortnight, The Judge Has Told the Court.