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Erin Patterson denies deliberately foraging death cap mushrooms and weighing fatal dose as cross-examination begins


Triple murder accused also tells court she had a ‘stupid kneejerk reaction to just dig deeper, and keep lying’ to police after lunch guests died

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Erin Patterson has denied deliberately foraging death cap mushrooms and weighing them to calculate the fatal dose for a person, but admitted a series of lies to police as homicide detectives investigated the fatal lunch.

On her fourth day in the witness box, Patterson’s cross examination started, and the jury was told the estimate for the trial had blown out by at least a fortnight.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/05/erin-patterson-mushroom-lunch-trial-cross-examination-death-cap-ntwnfb

Author : Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter

Publish date : 2025-06-05 04:13:00

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