Australia mushroom trial live: idea that Erin Patterson wanted to kill estranged husband at lunch ‘absurd’, defence says

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder following a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow liveDefence says there is ‘not one scrap of evidence’ Erin Patterson saw iNaturalist death cap postsMandy says the jury has heard there had only been three reported sightings of death cap mushrooms in the Gippsland region.The interaction with iNaturalist was two minutes at most … it’s not very long.This was not a person carefully studying this information, doing research about it. This was not a deep and abiding interest in this subject matter. It was passing attention. Continue reading...

Australia mushroom trial live: idea that Erin Patterson wanted to kill estranged husband at lunch ‘absurd’, defence says

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder following a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow live

Defence says there is ‘not one scrap of evidence’ Erin Patterson saw iNaturalist death cap posts

Mandy says the jury has heard there had only been three reported sightings of death cap mushrooms in the Gippsland region.

The interaction with iNaturalist was two minutes at most … it’s not very long.

This was not a person carefully studying this information, doing research about it. This was not a deep and abiding interest in this subject matter. It was passing attention. Continue reading...