The woman at the centre of the Australian mushroom poisoning case that was in the news a while back is now on trial. She had served a beef wellington dish containing death cap mushrooms to her mother and father in law and aunt and uncle in law. All except the uncle in law died. She had invited her estranged husband, but he pulled out. She did not get ill and neither did her children, who didn't attend the dinner. The prosecution is saying that, according to the surviving uncle in law, she had eaten from a different coloured plate.
From the coverage before, it sounded very suspicious. She had claimed to have bought the mushrooms from an Asian grocery store, but was unable to say where it was. It was reported at the time that the chances of buying death cap mushrooms from a store were zero. It was also reported that her husband had previously been in intensive care over a mystery stomach illness (
Erin Patterson’s husband suffered mystery illness a year before his family’s deaths in Leongatha).
Erin Patterson's mushroom murder trial jury hears opening addresses over alleged poisonings
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