Prosecutors have told the triple murder test jury of ER in Patterson that the mother of two has carried out a “sinister deception” on her parents-in-law by using a “nourishing meal” as the vehicle for deadly doses of killing chapters.
Mrs Patterson, 50, has not guilty of three counts of murder and one of attempted murder during a lunch by Beef Wellington served to four family members in her regional Victorian house in 2023.
When the trial started on Monday its eighth week, main prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC began to deliver its closing address to the jury.
Cancer is ‘planted’ prior to lunch, prosecution
Dr. Rogers told the jury that the prosecution claimed that Mrs. Patterson had done four substantial acts of deception while performing her crimes.
The public prosecutor said that the first of these was her manufactured cancer claim to the lunch guests, the court heard that she had been diagnosed with cancer – although Mrs. Patterson told the court that she had believed that she had only implied that she might need ovarian cancer treatment in the future.
“The accused planted the seed of this lie far in advance,” said Dr. Rogers, referring to proof that Mrs. Patterson had told her in -laws about tests on her elbow in the run -up to lunch.
Public Prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC (left) summarizes her case against Patterson. ((ABC News))
The public prosecutor said the jury that Patterson “set up a fiction” that she was confronted with a diagnosis of cancer, who became more convincing by doing her “research” into the circumstances she told her guests that she was concerned.
“Why on earth would she tell such a lie?” Dr. Rogers asked the jury rhetorically.
“She didn’t think her lunch guests would live to reveal it. Her lie would die with them,”
Said Dr. Rogers.
She told the jury that they could evidence of Mrs. Patterterson that she had organized lunch to thank her family members and show her garden.
She also told the jury that the absence of the children of Mrs. Patterson from the lunch “was completely the suspect’s plan” to ensure that “the children would not be harmed by the poison she was about to serve”.
Public Prosecutor Claims that mushrooms of Death Cap -Champignons were ‘excreted’ in lunch
Dr. Rogers said that the second and most “critical” deception that was claimed by the persecution was that Mrs. Patterterson took the mushrooms of the Death Cap “in the individual beef Wellingtons.
“The sinister deception was to use a nourishing meal as a vehicle to deliver the deadly poison,” said Dr. Rogers.
Dr. Rogers said that the design of the meal, in which a large block of beef Wellington in a cookbook recipe was replaced by individual packaging of beef Wellingtons, a “deliberate choice” was by Mrs. Patterson.
“She was able to share in the same meal, while she made sure she didn’t use … [a beef Wellington] Dressed with the death caps, “the public prosecutor told the jury.
Erin Patterterson is accused of poisoning Ian and Heather Wilkinson and Don and Gail Patterson. Ian Wilkinson (left) was the only survivor of the Leongatha lunch. ((Delivered))
Dr. Rogers said that although there was “no direct evidence about where the accused of the Killer Chairs Chairs in Bid”, Mrs. Patterterson was “known” with the onaturalistic website and had made earlier visits to the site that showed where the poisonous fungi grew.
“The accused did not navigated to other types of mushrooms, she did not turn over the website. She went directly to the death cheese chairs,” said Dr. Rogers.
Phone information was used to identify the jury two “potential” visits of Mrs. Patterson to areas where the deadly doppaddoses were identified in Outtrim and Loch.
The public prosecutor claimed that after the accused went to Loch to find the deadly chapels chairs, a photo on one of Mrs. Patterson’s devices showed “the very Death Cap Mushrooms that she collected … in the process of dried out”.
The jury rather heard evidence of how Mrs. Patterson would dry out mushrooms and she would blister in a powder to “hide” in food for the children, a technique used according to the public prosecutor for the fatal lunch.
“At a certain moment she blitzed them in a powder, while admitting other mushrooms, and in that form, she hidden them [in the beef Wellingtons]”
Said Dr. Rogers.
Dr. Rogers also emphasized evidence that was given by Sole Surviving Lunch Guest Ian Wilkinson, who said that the guests had eaten several colored signs to their host.
“The accused deliberately served on a plate other than the others to determine which of the meals was not poisoned and which she would then serve for themselves,” Dr. claimed. Rogers.
“The only reason she would do that is because she knew that there were poisonous mushrooms in the other meals, because she placed them there and ensured that she could identify the only non-poqual meal.”
Dr. Rogers told the jury that it was not credible that Mrs Patterson had not been able to remember the location of the Asian grocer, where she had claimed to buy dried mushrooms used in the meal.
The public prosecutor said that Mrs Patterson had shown a “remarkable memory” during her time in the witness box, where she had easily recalled dates, evidence and details.
Dr. Rogers noted that Mrs. Patterson had even corrected her during cross -examination for the day of the week on which a certain date fell in 2023.
In view of the proof of Mrs Patterson’s strong recall, “it is simply the faith” that they could not have remembered the location of the store.
Dr. Rogers told the jury that they had to reject the evidence that mushrooms were purchased from an Asian grocer for the meal as “a fiction” that Mrs Patterson had repeated “time and time again”.
Mrs. Patterson’s apparent disease the third deception, says prosecution
The prosecutor claimed that after lunch, Mrs. Patterson was dismissed on medical staff and family in a third major act of deception.
“The only reason she would do something like that – pretending she suffers from the same disease as the others – is of course because she knew she was not poisoned, knew she would not show any symptoms of poisoning [and how suspicious that would look]”Said Dr. Rogers.
“In other words, her good health would give her away.“
Dr. Roger’s detailed evidence given by Mrs. Patterterson of her symptoms after lunch, of which she said it was “not consistent” with evidence given by a number of other witnesses during the trial.
Erin Patterterson gave evidence in her own Triple murder process in Morwell. ((ABC News: Paul Tyquin))
One of those witnesses was her alienated husband Simon Patterson, who told Mrs Patterson told him that she was experiencing diarrhea and started to feel unwell for an hour or so after her lunch guests left.
The four lunch guests had started symptoms around midnight. Dr. Rogers said that the delayed beginning of the symptoms was what was first medical experts for the killed chapter poisoning and “therefore [Ms Patterson’s] Symptoms were not consistent with the poisoning of her lunch guests “.
The frequency of Mrs Patterson’s alleged bowel movements after lunch was also questioned and the persecution said that the proof of Mrs. Patterson she took Imodium to treat diarrhea was also manufactured.
The public prosecutor also told the jury that it was “very unlikely” that someone who suffered from nausea, cramps and recurring diarrhea would start a two -hour driving ribbon from Leongatha to Tyabb on the day after lunch.
Dr. Rogers told the jury Mrs. Patterson to discharge herself from the hospital without getting life -saving treatment after her first presentation was “burdensome behavior” and she did this because “she knew” she had not eaten any Death Cap mushrooms.
“She realized that what she had done would be discovered,” said Dr. Rogers.
“She fled back to her house to try to find out how she would manage the situation and how she could explain why she was not as sick as the lunch guests.
“Her restraint to receiving medical treatment is inexplicable, unless she knew she hadn’t eaten what her lunch guests had eaten.”
On Monday afternoon Dr. Rogers to sketch what prosecutors claimed the fourth deception was in Mrs Patterson’s crimes: the “cover-up”.
The public prosecutor claimed here as part of, Mrs. Patterson had lied about feeding leftovers of lunch to her children and lied about the origin of the mushrooms in the meal.
Dr. Rogers said that the accused had also dumped the dehydrator that was used to dry death Doppaddoelen and to hide her usual mobile phone from the police as part of the alleged deception.
The process continues.
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