The separate husband or an Australian Accused woman or triple murder With a resowton res with a toxic fungus he told a court on Thursday that he rejected an invitation to lunch because he felt uncomfortable about it. The jury also heard that the woman invited her guests to tell them that she had cancer, but prosecutors said she didn’t really have the disease.
There in Patterson50, is accused of three murders, of the parents and aunt of her separate husband. She is also accused of an attempt to murder.
Patterson has He declared himself innocent For all aspects, with his defense saying that the fatal food of beef and heritage, full of fungi of the death cover, was the result of “a terrible accident.”
The second day of a trial that attracted worldwide attention, the husband of the accused woman, Simon Patterson, described to see her parents in the hospital after being stubborn.
“Dad was a worse substantial than Mom. I was really fighting,” he told court.
“He was lying on his side, he was hunched out,” said Simon Patterson, adding that the father’s face was “really faded.”
“I was right inside, I felt pain,” he said.
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Simon Patterson had been invited to lunch at the end of July 2023 at his wife’s house in the town of Leongha State Farm de Leongatha. But he told the court that he declined, sending text messages that was “uncomfortable” with the invitation.
She urged him to reconsider, saying that he had cooked a “special food” and had passed a “little fortune” in the beef eye fillet.
“I hope you change your mind,” his text message told the court. “I hope to see you there.”
The woman said she had cancer, prosecutors say
Erin Patterson had invited the guests under the appearance of telling them about a health problem, according to the court.
Simon Patterson did not appear at lunch, but his parents, Don and Gail Patterson, did it, along with their aunt Heather Wilkinson and his husband, local pastor Ian Wilkinson.
In a matter of days, Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson were dead. Ian Wilkinson, the shepherd, survived after almost two months at the hospital.
Duration The lunch meeting, Erin Patterson said he had cancer and asked him for advice on how to tell his two children, he told the prosecutor of the Nanette Rogers crown to the court. The medical tests then found no evidence that the disease had, according to the prosecutor.
The four guests developed Dianrea and vomiting within 12 hours after food and were run to the hospital. They were diagnosed who accompanied the doctors with fungal poisoning of the death cover.
In the hospital, Simon Patterson said his father informed him about the diagnosis of claimed cancer of his wife, or that he had not previously heard.
His parents were “really strong” by encouraging the couple to solve their marriage problems, he said.
Simon Patterson told court that his wife “got along” with his father -in -law while “shared love for knowledge, learning and interest in the world.”
“I think she loved her gentle nature,” he said.
Simon Patterson and his wife separated in 2015, but they accommodated a good friendship, also on vacation with their children together.
By 2022, things had become tense and conversations were mainly limited to logistics that involved children, he said.
Erin Patterson was a “devout mother” for her children and supported her participation in a variety of activities, her husband said.
The prosecutor says that he deliberately poisoned her guests and avoided consuming the limits of death.
Instead, she alleges, she pretended to suffer similar symptoms to cover up that she had not eaten fungi.
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While the jury might ask about reason, “the reason is not something that the Prosecutor’s Office has to prove,” Rogers said at the beginning of the trial.
Erin Patterson’s lawyer, Colin Mandy, told the Court that poisoning was a “tragedy and a terrible accident.” She ate the same meal with death fungi, but did not get sick as her guests, Mandy said.
Patterson is being tried in the courts of Law Valley de Latrobe in Morwell, south of Melbourne. Judge Christopher Beale urged the jury to “disappasitely” weigh the evidence in the case, using their heads and not their hearts, the BBC reported.
The trial is expected to last approximately six weeks.
Poisonous fungi
Police say that the symptoms of the four sick family members were consistent with the poisoning of Amanita Phalloids wild, known as Death cover fungi.
The fungi of the death cover sprout freely through humid and warm parts of Australia and are easily confused with edible varieties. They informed Leeter that other types of fungi, but have powerful toxins that slowly poison the liver and kidneys.
The death limits are responsible for 90% or lethal poisoning worldwide, the BBC reported. In 2020, a series of poisoning in Victoria killed a person and hospitalized seven others.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported that in Patterson he had written in a statement that he had cooked a dish of res bee. She wrote that she also ate the food and then suffered stomach and Darhea pain.
His children, who were not present at lunch, ate some of the remaining meat from Wellington the next day, the BBC reported. The mushrooms had their skirting leg since they don’t like them, he said.
