Erine Patterson tells the trial of murder, the wild mushrooms “more flavor”

An Australian woman has told a toxic meal in Al -Fitr the trial of the killing that she had long been a lover of Al -Fitr, but recently developed a taste for wild fungi items that had a “more flavor”.

Erine Patterson acknowledged that he was not guilty of the killing of three relatives, and an attempt to kill another person, after serving them on mushrooms at her home in her home in Victoria in July 2023.

Prosecutors say that she intentionally put the poisonous mushrooms in the meal, but the defense team says it was a “terrible accident.”

Mrs. Patterson told – during her second day on the platform of witnesses – the jury had begun to search for wild mushrooms during the Kofid’s pandemic, years before the deadly meal.

All Mrs. Patterson, Don Patterson, both, and the sister of Heather’s generation, Wilkinson, 66, were transferred to the hospital after eating beef and Lengton meat at lunch and died several days later.

Ian Wilkenson, the uncle of Mrs. Patterson’s separate husband, seriously suffered the disease but survived weeks of treatment.

After telling the court that she accepted that the hatred of the hat in the event of death was in the Windington she served, Mrs. Patterson described a feed for mushrooms in various locations – vegetable gardens, a railway path near her home, and on her own property.

She told the court: “She mainly picked up the field mushroom,” sometimes explaining with her two children.

I listed the first time that I tried the wild mushrooms, cut a small part before cooked in the butter.

The jury said, “(It) tasted well and did not get sick.”

The court also heard that it bought a food dryer in April 2023, in part due to the fact that the wild mushroom was like “the small season” and wanted to keep it for later use.

When asked about the place where the mushroom came to have lunch in the middle of the case, Ms. Patterson said, “the” vast majority “of a supermarket in Lyongatha, while some were bought a few months ago from an Asian grocery store in Melbourne.

She could not remember the “specified purchase”, but she had previously bought a variety of mushrooms – Chitaki, Porsini, Inuki – from similar stores. At other times, “Wild Mushroom Mix” or “Forest mushrooms” bought that did not specify accurate contents.

Earlier, Mrs. Patterson climbed changes in dynamic with Simon Patterson and hit her after the spouses were separated in 2015.

“In the aftermath, it was difficult … but this only lasted for two weeks … We went back until we are really good friends.”

She said that her relationship with her husband “did not change.”

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

However, the court told that her relationship with Simon had become tense amid a struggle for financial affairs as of October 2022, and she tried to mediate her son -in -law.