Australian woman accused of murders with toxic mushrooms gives her her account of a deadly lunch

An Australian woman accused of killing three relatives of her elderly husband, separated by poisonous mushrooms, gave her account of deadly lunch on Wednesday, in a case that acquired the public.

Erarin Patterson, 50, was accused of killing him in July 2023 of her mother -in -law Gill Patterson, his wife, Donald Patterson and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkenson, along with an attempt to kill Ian Wilkenson, Heather’s husband.

The prosecution claims that it has deliberately served the deadly mushroom guests in Wildington, beef in her home in Lyongotha, a town of about 6000 people about 135 km from Melbourne.

She denies the charges, with her defense, saying that the deaths were a “terrible accident”. A lifelong prison sentence faces it if it is proven guilty.

The defendants, the first witness to her defense and began her evidence on Monday afternoon, cried over and over again because she told the court on Wednesday that she might have included the mushroom fraud in the food she served.

“Now I think there is a possibility of being in each other,” she said, asking her by her lawyer Colin Mandy.

The court also listened to Wednesday that Erine Patterson had invented a partial medical issues to derive sympathy from her separate husband’s relatives, which she said she felt was growing.

“I didn’t want to stop me, so I kept continuous. I shouldn’t do so,” she told the court.

“Do you lie to them?” Mandy’s request.

“You lied to them,” the accused answered, through tears.

The prosecution claims that Patterson invented medical issues to attract victims to her home to eat a meal, which is a demand to deny her.

The prosecution was based on its case on Monday, after a month of witnesses, including relatives, forensic and mushrooms.

The trial, which started on April 29, witnessed a great interest from the Australian and international media, with young children, journalists and documentary filmmakers in the city of Morwell, about 155 km east of Melbourne, where the trial is held.

The country is the most popular in the country, while many Australian newspapers run live blogs in the case.

The trial continues, to conclude this month.