Erin Patterson, a 50-year-old Australian woman, is on trial for allegedly poisoning three of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms during a meal. The fatal lunch occurred in July 2023, resulting in the deaths of three individuals, with one surviving after a liver transplant. Patterson claims she was unaware that she served toxic fungi, asserting the events were accidental. However, prosecutors presented evidence suggesting she weighed the mushrooms deliberately. Her inconsistent statements to authorities raise suspicions about her knowledge of the meal's ingredients.
I suggest you were weighing these death cap mushrooms so that you could calculate the weight required to calculate the administration of a fatal dose for one person, prosecutor Nanette Rogers said in court.
Now I think that there was a possibility that there were foraged ones in there as well, Erin Patterson said, explaining that she had deviated from her chosen recipe to improve the dish's bland flavour.
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