Erin Patterson's mushroom lunch shopping list revealed
The shopping list of accused killer cook Erin Patterson was retrieved by police as they investigated the beef Wellington lunch that left three people dead.
Detective Leading Senior Constable Stephen Eppingstall told the Supreme Court at Morwell on Wednesday that Patterson's purchase history around the date of the July 29, 2023 lunch was tracked using a grocery store rewards card and her bank statement.
The jury was shown a list of items that Patterson, 50, had bought using a self-service checkout at the Woolworths store in Leongatha.
It included kilograms of pastry, sliced mushrooms, beef eye fillet steak, potato mash and beans.
Eppingstall said his team also visited the two mushroom growers who supply the Leongatha Woolworths, touring the facilities and taking video of the Mernda and Reservoir factories.
He said they found the mushrooms were grown in a controlled environment where death caps were unable to be cultivated.
Erin Patterson's grocery list
Sunday July 23, 2023
2 x mushrooms sliced 500g
Puff pastry 1kg
Frozen filo pastry 375g
Onions, shallot French
Thursday July 27, 2023
Puff pastry sheets 10-pack, 1.6kg
Frozen filo pastry 375g
4 x beef eye fillet steak
2 x mushroom sliced 375g
Friday July 28, 2023
Puff pastry, 550g
Frozen filo pastry
Potato mash, 1.5kg
Beans, round clean cut, 340g
Beef eye fillet steak
The homicide detective said bank records also revealed Patterson purchased food items at a doughnut van and service station after the lunch, and made a deposit at the local tip.
This included new evidence from Erin Patterson's daughter who'd initially told police she was unaware of her mother visiting any Asian-type grocery stores. Eppingstall confirmed that shortly before trial, the child rewatched her video statement and said she did remember that they once went to an Asian-type food shop for cooking.
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