The jury begins in the murder trial of fungi

They have prepared a deadly mushroom meal for relatives to decide his destiny to decide in the trial of the Australian murder.

Erin Patterson, 50, is not guilty of four charges – three murder and an attempt to murder – July 2023 in his region Victorian lunch.

Prosecutors Mrs. Patterson said that Death toxic hood mushrooms have been cooked in the home cooked meal before lying to the police and disposing evidence.

But the defense came unexpectedly into Patterson’s poisonous fungi because he loved people who loved only the poisonous fungi and lie.

Ms. Patterson, Don and Gail Patterson, 70. In Gail’s Heather Wilkinson, 66, were all sick, all falling sick and killed a few days after lunch.

Heather husband, Local Shepherd Ian Wilkinson, in a comma recovered after a week. Simon Patterson, the stranger husband of the accused, was invited to lunch, but they took it out the day before.

On Monday, Justice Christopher Beale gave his latest instructions to the jury of the 14-member, in summing evidence of the witnesses of the witnesses of the prosecution and rough defense, Mrs. Patterson.

After almost two months and 50 witnesses, the last 12 jury decided by a vote before the team withdrawn for deliberations.

In his closing arguments, the prosecutor Nanette Rogers said Patterson Ms. Patterson said that he was so hard to lie “.

Patterson allegedly false relatives about a diagnosis of cancer, to go to a fatal meal, poison it and then cheated on a disease to cover his tracks.

Mrs. Patterson belongs to police and medical staff in search of wild mushrooms, as well as the decision to flip a dehydrated food used to prepare a lunch.

“Lies said he liens it, he actually said,” said Nanette Roger.

“When they knew that when they were found, he came with evidence with a carefully built narrative, almost”.

There was no “special reason” for the alleged crime, Dr. Rogers said to the court, but the jury still should be “difficulty” to reject the argument. “

However, the lack of motif argued that the defense was key. Mrs. Patterson didn’t have reason to kill her guests, they said.

At the evidence of Mrs. Patterson, he told him that the jury was very close to his laws and never wanted to harm them.

When he was preparing for a lunch, Ms. Patterson claimed that he had now realized that he added the mushrooms in a container in a container.

It has been a chance to suffer Bulimia for years, and after Kow Wellington meal he threw himself. His defense team explained why he did not become as patient as patients.

It was a lie about being cancer because Patterson had plans to lose weight.

“It’s not in trial to lie,” Defense Lawyer Colin Mandy SC, which is not a court of the moral judgment. “

Proof of trying to force “puzzles” accused them of “trying to extend interpretations” because they are not regarded by alternative explanations because they are not with the narrative. “

In his latest instructions, Justice Beale said only the jurors were “judges of events in this case.

He said that Mrs. Patterson did not have to be convicted, “A person can be in a way that a person can be guilt” can have all kinds of reasons “.

He added that “a sensible person would feel great sympathy for the families of Patterson and Wilkinson, the members of the jury should not affect emotions.

The jury has been secret, which means that while they intentionally did, they will remain in the supervised accommodation, where they do not have a relationship when they do not contact the outside world.