The high-profile jury to kill a woman of Australia accused of cooking a deadly mushroom mushrooms for relatives retiring to deciding his fate.
Erin Patterson, 50, pleaded not guilty of four charges – three of the killing and one attempt to kill house on July 2023.
The prosecution claimed that Ms Patterson learned that the poisonous mushrooms were placed in the deaths of the house cooks, before lying to police and rejection of evidence.
But the defense Argue Ms Patterson was accidentally attached to the poisonous fungi of the dishes and only lied because he was driving after the people he loved.
Ms Patterson’s brother-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, with Gail’s brother Heather Wilkinson, 66, all who was sick and died at lunch in Lengetha.
Heather Heather Local Pastor Ian Wilkinson, recovering weeks in a commas. Simon Patterson, the accused of the defendant’s husband, was also invited to lunch, but the day was pulled before.
On Monday, Justice Christopher Beale gave his final instructions to the 14-member jury, raising evidence from the prosecution and the only witness, Ms Patterson.
After around two months and more than 50 Witnesses, the last 12 12 jurors decided on a ballot before the group retired.
In his research research, Nanette Rogers SC says
The prosecution says Ms Patterson who lied to his relatives about a cancer diagnosis to convince them to attend fatal lunch, they poisoned and then plagued a disease.
Ms Patterson’s further lies and medicine staff about the wild mushrooms, as well as his decision to throw in a diet, evidence of his guilt, they argue.
“He tells falsehood to falsehood because he knows that the truth is to think about him,” Nanette Rogers said.
“When he learned that his lies were not aware, he had a careful built account to suit evidence – almost.”
There is no “specific motive” for said crime, Dr Rogers told the court, but the jury should still “have no difficulty” to reject the argument “This is a terrible fighting accident”.
However, the defense argues that the lack of motive is the key. Ms Patterson has no reason to kill his guests, they say.
During the evidence of Ms Patterson, he told the jury he was very close to his brothers and not intended to harm them.
As he prepares lunch, Ms Patterson admits increases mushrooms from a container to his pantry he knows with mushrooms purchased.
He also told the court that he suffered from Bulimia for many years, and made himself thrown into the beef house – something he didn’t feel sick like others ate.
Lies about cancer because he is ashamed of plans to gain weight loss operations, and he does not tell his mushrooms with his mushrooms because he is afraid of his relatives.
“He did not try for lying,” Defense lawyer Colin Mandy SC, “It is not a court of judgment on behavior”.
He accuses the prosecution of pressing the “Puzzle pieces” together, “Translation Points, ignoring alternative explanations because they do not always promptly induce narration”.
In his final instructions, Justice Beale told jury members who were the only “judges of the facts in this case”.
He says they don’t have to hold Ms Patterson just because of lying, because there is “all kinds of reasons why a person can be guilty guilty guilty”.
He added that even “any reasonable man feels good sympathy” for Patterson and Wilkinson families, the Patterson families and Wilkinson also not allowed themselves to be attracted to emotions.
The jury now has been sorted, which means that while they are intended, they remain in management accommodation where they have no contact outside of the world until they reach a decision.
