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Australian mushroom poisoning case 3 Weeks, 1 Day ago
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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
www.bbc.com/news/live/c23054k1x05t
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Re:Australian mushroom poisoning case 3 Weeks, 1 Day ago
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Not sure if the people invited to the dinner were all her adult relatives. I haven't seen reports saying that.
Why the jury will never be told a reason for Erin Patterson's deadly mushroom meal
(2023) Mushroom chef an ‘experienced forager’
In a written statement sent to cops on Friday, Ms Patterson — who denies any wrongdoing — gave her first account of what happened before and after the fatal lunch.
She said she served the meal and allowed the guests to choose their own plates — and she also ate a portion of the beef wellington herself.
The mushrooms were a mixture of button mushrooms from a major supermarket chain, and dried mushrooms from an Asian grocery store in Melbourne months before, she added.
There's no way I'd eat anything containing wild mushrooms foraged by someone [the prosecution and defence apparently agree that she foraged the deadly mushrooms], no matter how experienced they might be, especially after this story!
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