Irene Patterson tells the court that it has cast a toxic meal

An Australian woman says to be tried on charges of murder that she threw the toxic mushroom meal that killed her relatives, after eating desserts.

Erine Patterson acknowledged that he was not guilty of four charges – three murder and one of the attempts to kill – for the lunch of cow and Lington at her regional Victorian home in July 2023.

Prosecutors claim that Mrs. Patterson deliberately served the fungus of the toxic death, but only for her guests. Its defense team says that the contaminated meal was a tragic accident, and it claims that they made their customers also sick.

On her third day of her testimony, Mrs. Patterson told the court that she had ate only a small part of lunch and consumed two thirds of the cake, before vomiting.

On a large -scale day of evidence, Mrs. Patterson also admitted that she had lied about cancer diagnosis – which prosecutors say she used to persuade guests to her home – instead of revealing that she was actually planning to undergo weight loss surgery.

She said that she threw a dryer and wiped her phone in the days after the accident for fear of blame the death of her relative, and the court told her separate husband accused her of poisoning.

Three people died in the hospital in the days that followed the meal, including the former Mrs. Patterson foals, Don Patterson, 70, Jil Patterson, 70, as well as the sister of Jill, Heather Wilkenson, 66.

One lunch guest, the 71 -year -old local priest Ian Wilkenson, survived weeks of hospital treatment.

I heard the trial of the Victorian Supreme Court – which started nearly six weeks ago – from more than 50 witnesses, and attracted great global attention.

In the Mourwell court, Mrs. Patterson presented a detailed description of the deadly lunch, saying that she invited her guests under the hypothesis that she wanted to talk about health issues.

The 14 -member jury had heard that Mrs. Patterson had gone through a “long process of trying to determine what to cook” to have lunch before choosing to make cow meat and Lenton.

She said that the dish – which is usually with a long strip of the fillet slice, is wrapped in pastry and mushrooms – was something made by Mrs. Patterson’s mother when she was a child, to celebrate special occasions.

After she decided to break the fast, she prepared a “nice” taste, she said that she added some of these dried – bought from the Asian grocery in Melbourne months ago – from a container in her store.

In response to a question about whether this container may have other types of mushrooms, Ms. Patterson, who suffocates, said: “Now I think there is a possibility that there will be some types there.”

Yesterday, the court heard that Mrs. Patterson began searching for mushrooms at locations near her home in Lyongatha in 2020, and her long -term love of fungi expanded to include wild varieties because she is “more flavorful.”

Mrs. Patterson told the jury that she had provided food when he was ready, and she ordered her guests to seize a plate for herself while preparing the broth.

She said that there were no dedicated seats or boards.

Mr. Wilkenson told the experience that the guests had been given all gray paintings while Mrs. Patterson ate an orange. Mrs. Patterson said on Wednesday that she had no gray paintings.

During lunch, Mrs. Patterson remembered that she did not eat much of her food – “a quarter, a third, somewhere there” – because she was busy speaking.

She admitted that she had told her guests that she had cancer, but in court she made it clear that she had told this lie to make sure that she had assisted childcare when she underwent stomach surgery.

“I remember I thought I didn’t want to tell anyone what I was going to do. I was really embarrassed,” she said.

After leaving the guests, she cleaned the kitchen and ate a slice of orange cake brought by Gail.

(I ate another piece of cake, then another piece, “before finishing the rest of the candy.

She said, “I felt the disease … more than necessary, so I went to the toilets and returned it again.”

“After I did it, I felt better.”

Yesterday, the court heard that Mrs. Patterson had secretly struggled with the sick evil since adolescence and was subject to dining and vomiting regularly after meals.

Mrs. Patterson told the court that she had begun to develop stomach -like symptoms after hours of lunch and transferred herself to the hospital “to obtain some fluids” after two days. I was shocked by “shocked but confused” when the medical staff asked whether he could eat mushrooms.

While she was in the hospital for surveillance overnight, Mrs. Patterson said that her ex -husband, Simon, asked her about a dryer.

“Is this how my father poisoned?” She told the trial that he told her – something that Mr. Patterson denies.

After this meeting, it was “fever”, as Ms. Patterson said, and she got rid of her food dryer at the local end.

“I provided the meal, served it, and people were ill.”

“I was afraid that they would fill me for it.”

The court also heard that Mrs. Patterson wiped data on one of her phones several times – including while the police were searching for her home – because she does not want investigators to see her pictures of mushrooms and the unknown device.

Mrs. Patterson will continue to provide evidence on Thursday, before the prosecutors have the opportunity to interrogate her.