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Australia mushroom trial live: Erin Patterson tells court she thought beef wellington recipe was ‘the perfect dish’ for dried mushrooms


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

‘You knew how suspicious it would look’: Erin Patterson makes series of denials in tense cross-examination

Rogers shows the court text messages between Patterson and Department of Health official Sally Ann Atkinson in the days after the lunch.

Rogers says Atkinson’s evidence was that in a phone call on 1 August 2023 Patterson told her the beef wellington contained dried mushrooms bought from an Asian grocer around April that year. Atkinson said Patterson told her they smelled “funny” and she feared they would be too overpowering in a dish.

I thought it was the perfect dish for them.

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Publish date : 2025-06-11 01:36:00

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