Erin Patterson murder trial live: judge in mushroom case to address the jury
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Date: 2025-06-24T00:20:35.000Z
Title: Erin Patterson
Content: Welcome to day 36 of 's triple murder trial.
We're expecting the trial to resume from 10.30am.
Justice Christopher Beale will begin instructing the jurors this morning before they begin their deliberations. The jury will not retire to consider its verdict until Wednesday at the earliest.
Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her house in Leongatha, in regional Victoria, on 29 July 2023.
She is accused of murdering her in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, and her estranged husband's aunt, Heather Wilkinson. The attempted murder charge relates to Heather's husband, Ian.
She has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The prosecution alleges Patterson deliberately poisoned her lunch guests with 'murderous intent' but her lawyers say the poisoning was a tragic accident.
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