She also hid the sponges in spaghetti to « provide children with more vegetables »

Today, a new hearing ended in six weeks long trial of Australian Erin Pattersonwho served a deadly beef roast with green flies on July 29, 2023. She is accused of murdering three relatives and attempting to murder the fourth.

From the beginning, Patterson has claimed that the toxic mushrooms served inadvertently, although investigators on her plate have discovered only traces of edible kukmak, but not the flies that found themselves on the plates of the guests. After the death of three relatives, Patterson lied to the police, and also tried to get rid of the evidence – among other things, she threw away the dehydrator of food in which she dried mushrooms. According to her, she did this instinctively in a panic.

They died due to green fly poisoning Don and Gail Pattersonfather -in -law and mother -in -law of accused, and Gailila’s sister Heather Wilkinsonwhile her husband is Ian Wilkinson survived but recovered in the hospital for weeks. The alienated ex -accused man was also invited to lunch Erin Pattersonbut changed his mind at the last moment and did not attend the lunch, he states Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

The prosecution is reportedly BBC Today, he claimed that Paterterson was pretending to have a reasonable reason for the guests’ invitation. She invited relatives to lunch on the pretext that she wanted to talk to them about the diagnosis of cancer, which was not true.

In the messages sent by her mother -in -law, Patterson wrote: “After meeting with my doctor because of my diagnosis, there are many things I have to think about. We may be able to mean live.  »

« I invited them just like that, I didn’t give them a reason, » the accused said.

Prosecutors also questioned her today for posts on social networks, stating that she had hidden mushrooms in food so that her children would be easier to eat. The prosecution’s questions, if she hid the sponges in food without others noticed it, was affirmed by Patterson, but added that she did it only to her own children, as it « provided them with more vegetables ».

She added that she also hid the sponges in spaghetti, lasagna, biscuits and stews.

The accused claimed that she had accumulated the green fly, despite the fact that they found themselves only on the plates of the guests, but not on the host. She also stated that a few hours after the meal had become bad and that she had taken to the hospital. She was « shocked and confused » there when doctors asked her if she had consumed green flies.

At the trial, which many thought would be completed after a maximum of four weeks, a pharmacist and fungi expert spoke at the beginning Christine McKenzie and Matthew SorellDoctor of Science and Expert for Digital Forensics. McKenzijeva pointed to the presence of deadly green fly in the Inituralist forum in the area of ​​28 kilometers from the home of Patterson in Leongath. The accused was probably observing the location of green flies for about three months before picking mushrooms and using them for the fateful beef roast.