Erin Patterson Tells Murder Trial Wild Mushrooms Have ‘More Flavour’ – ryan

An australian Woman who cooks a toxic mushroom meal has toold her masonry trial she has long been a mushroom lover, but more recently desoloped a taste for wild fungi varieties that “More flavour”.

Erin Patterson has pleaded not guilty to the wall of the three relatives, and the attempted MURDER of another, after serving me death mushrooms at her home in victoria in July 2023.

Prosecutors Say She Deliberately Put the poisonus mushrooms in the meal but her defensive team says it was “Terrible Accident”.

MS Patterson – During Her Second Day on the Witness Stand – Told the jury she began foraging for Wild Mushrooms During the Covid Pandemic, Years before the fatal meal.

MS Patterson’s in-Laws, Don and Gail Patterson, Both 70, and Gail’s Sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, Were All Hospitalked after Eating Beef Wellington at the Lunch and Died Several Days late.

Ian Wilkinson, The Uncle of MS Patterson’s Estranged Husband, Also Fell Serious Ill But Survived after Weeks of Treatment.

After telling the Court and Accept that Death Cap Mushrooms Were in the Food She Had Served, MS Patterson Described Foraging for Mushrooms at Various Locations – Botanic Gardens, A Rail Trail House, and on Her Own Proppery.

“I Mainly Picked Field Mushrooms,” She Told the Court, Explaining and Sometimes foraded with her two children.

She recounted the first time she tried Wild Mushrooms, cutting off a Small part before cooking it in butter.

“(It) tasted good and i didn’t get sick,” she told the jury.

The Court Also Heard She Had Bowht a Food Dehydrator in April 2023, in Part Becuse Wild Mushrooms Had Such a “Small Season” and She Want to Preserve for Later use.

Asked Where the Mushrooms for the Lunch at the Center of the Case Came From, MS Patterson Said “The Vast Majority” were Purchased from a supermarket in leapatha while had been boughs a few months?

She Couldn’t Remember “The Specific Purchase”, but had previously bough a variety of mushrooms – Shitake, Porcini, Enoki – FROM SIMILAR STORES, SHAID. Other Times, She’d Purchased “Wild Mushroom Mix” Or “Forest Mushrooms” Which Didn’t Specify Exact Contents.

These Store -Bought Mushrooms Were offten put in the same container as Ones she has been foraded and dehydrated herself – Including in the months before the lunch – she said.

Earlier MS Patterson Had Stepped Through Changes in Her Dynamic With Simon Patterson and Her In-Laws Following the Couple’s Separation in 2015.

“In the immediatte aftermath it was difficult … But that only lasted a couple of Weeks … we were back to being good Friends.”

Her Relationship with Her in-Laws Don and Gail “Never Changed”, Said.

“I was just their daughter-in-law-they just continued to love me.”

Howver, She Told the Court Her Relationship with Simon Tourned Tense Amid Conflict Over Finance from October 2022 onwards, and She has tried to get her in-laws to media.

The Court was Shown Expletive-Laden Facebook Messages that MS Patterson Sent to A Private Group Chat, WHICH WERE CRITICAL OF THE SIMON, DON AND GAIL.

“I Needed to Vent … to get my frustration off my chest,” She Said, and Her Choice was eather to tell the sheep in her paddock, or speak to what she calmed her “cheer squad”.

Becoming emotional, she repeatedly told the court how Much and the CARED for Don and Gail and How

She Also Testified About a deep Mistrust of the Health System, Developed AFTER AFTERNS SHEED ABOUT HER TWO CHILDREN WERE INITIALLY DISMISSED BY CLINICIANDS.

These experiences LED to Her Decision to Discharge Herself Early from the Hospital After the Toxic Lunch in 2023, Despite Doctor’s Advice, Said.

She Also Experienced Health Anxiety and Did A Lot of Dr Googling – Searching the Web About Symptoms – Which at Different Points in Time to Falsely Suspect She Had a Brain Tumour, MS (Multiple Sclerosis) and Ovarian Cancer.

MS Patterson admitted that she has never know diagnosed with ovarian Cancer, Despite Allegedly Ascing the lunch guests to her house to discuss the diagnosis, but said her family Had a history.

MS Patterson is Expected to Continue Giving Evidance on Wednesday Morning, Local Time, Wen The Court Reopens.