The experience of an Australian woman accused of cooking a dead mushroom begins

An Australian woman accused recognizes cooking a mushroom meal to pick up the land Funi, lying to the police and getting rid of evidence, and the court has heard, but she will argue that the “tragedy” was a “terrible accident”.

Eren Patterson’s Supreme Court’s trial, 50, began in the small town of Morwell, the Victorian town on Wednesday, and is expected to last six weeks.

She is accused of killing three relatives and attempting to kill another, as the case focuses on lunch of beef in Witzton at her home in July 2023.

Mrs. Patterson acknowledged that she was not guilty and the defense team says to her that she “felt panic” after she unintentionally served the family members whom she loved.

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 local priest Ian Wilkenson – survived weeks of hospital treatment.

The court listened to the fact that the lunch of the cows in Witton, the hormonal potatoes and the green beans contain the mushrooms of death and caused the guest diseases not in competition.

“The comprehensive case is whether it intends to kill or cause a very serious injury,” said Judge Christopher Bell.

The trial opened on Wednesday, Prosecutor Nannett Rogers said that this case “was originally believed to be a collective food poisoning.”

But she claims that Mrs. Patterson “intentionally poisoned her” guests “with a killer intention”, after they called for lunch “on the peak that was diagnosed with cancer.”

Dr. Rogers said that the jury would hear evidence that Mrs. Patterson had traveled to a site, near her home in Lyongatha, where the Death Cap mushroom scenes were recorded on a natural web site.

In the days after lunch, I took a number of steps “to hide” what she did, as the prosecution claimed.

There will be evidence that she lied to investigators about the source of mushrooms in the dish – saying that some had come from the Asian grocery in Melbourne and had never imposed it. She made a trip to a local emptying to get rid of prosecutors in the food dryer saying she used to prepare a toxic meal.

“You might be wondering, what is the motivation?” Dr. Rogers told jury.

She explained that the prosecution will not propose a specific motivation.

“You don’t have to be satisfied with the motivation, or even there is one.”

She said that what the jury could expect is a testimony from a group of witnesses, including: Mr. Wilkenson, and her husband from Mrs. Patterson, Simon Patterson, the medical staff who treated lunch guests, and the police who fulfilled.

However, at the opening of their case, the defense reminded the jury, which has not heard any actual evidence yet and needs to maintain an open mind.

Lawyer Colin Mandy says while the claim will try to throw the behavior of Mrs. Patterson after lunch as “criminalizing”, jury should think about how someone reaches this situation.

“Do people say or do unwilling things well, and may make them look bad?”

“The issue of defense is that she was panic because she was soaked in the fact that these four people were severely ill because of the food she served for them. Three people died.”

He said that Mrs. Patterson did not deliberately serve her guests.

“She did not intend to cause any harm that day … What happened was a tragedy, a terrible accident.”

The prosecution also detailed allegations about what happened in the period before lunch, and at the table, in the open court for the first time.

The trial heard that in 2023, the accused was friendly from her husband Simon Patterson for years.

“Simon has been optimistic for some time that he and the accused will meet one day,” Dr. Rogers told jury.

The public prosecutor said he was also planning to attend the gathering, but withdrew at the last minute because he noticed a “change in his relationship” with Mrs. Patterson and felt “uncomfortable.” This was something “disappointed”, Mrs. Patterson, who “emphasized the effort she made in lunch.”

The jury was told that he would hear a testimony that Mrs. Patterson had served her guests on large gray paintings, but she ate a different orange dish, which prompted one of the guests to ask later whether she had a “lack of pottery”.

They said Grace, dug, and exchanged “joke” about how much they ate, before discussing how Mrs. Patterson should share her diagnosis in the diagnosis of cancer – which the defense recognizes was fake – with her children.

Dr. Rogers says that the lunch ceremony exploded early in the afternoon, and by that night, all the guests were sick. Within one day, the four went to the hospital with severe symptoms. Donald Patterson – who ate his part of lunch and about half of his wife – told the doctor that he was vomiting 30 times within a few hours.

The Prosecutor said that Wilkenson had asked whether Mrs. Patterson was in the hospital as well, as she took the same meal like them.

She had gone to the hospital and reported her feeling of illness, but she has repeatedly refused to accept. The doctor who treated the other lunch guests was interested in her luxury, and called the police to ask for help.

Likewise, the jury was informed of Mrs. Patterson, who continued to reject the treatment request for her children, which she said had ate the remains of beef and the Ningon – albeit with the mushroom they did not like.

Defense warned against the jury at the end of the day: “Many people may have opinions or theories, but they do not depend on evidence.”

“None of this should have any effect on your decision.”