Sydney-A Australian woman accused of using poisonous fungi to kill three major relatives of her separate husband was interrogated by the Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, denying that she had measured a “fatal dose” on the scales of her kitchen.
Erin Patterson, 50, is accused of the murders of July 2023 of his mother -in -law Gail Patterson, the father -in -law Donald Patterson and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, along with the murder attempt of Ian Wilkinson, Heather’s husband.
The Prosecutor’s Office accuses of serving guests Lethal Death Cap Mhopess as part of a res when meat in his home in Leongha, a city of approximately 6,000 to about 84 miles from Melbourne.
She denies the charges, which carry life imprisonment, with her defense calling deaths as a “terrible accident.”
Under the interrogation of the Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, Erin Patterson was asked if a series of fungus photos placed in weight scales in his kitchen was evidence that he had been measuring a “fatal dose” to serve his guests at lunch.
“I suggest that you were weighing these fungi of the death cover so that you can calculate the weight required for the administration of a fatal dose for a person. Agree or disagree?” Lawyer Nanette Rogers said.
“Disagree,” Patterson replied.
Patterson accepted under the interrogation that had lied to the police and medical professionals after lunch when asked if he had ever forced fungi or was a food didrator, which was later found in a waste removal plant containing traces of death limits.
While he was examined by his own lawyer Colin Mandy, Patterson said early on Thursday that he did not intentionally picked the fungi of the death cover, nor did he know their guests to lunch.
Nor had he pretended to be sick after lunch to avoid becoming a suspect in the case, he said.
The trial has captured public attention in Australia, where such cases are extremely rare.
The podcasters, journalists and documentaries of the local and international media have descended in the city of Morwell, where the trial is celebrated, about two hours to the east of Melbourne.
The Daily Podcast of the state announcer ABC on the procedure is currently the most popular in Australia, while many national newspapers have executed live blogs on evidence developments.
Judge Christopher Beale, the judge who presents the case, told the jury that the defendant’s interrogation would probably continue until next week.
The Prosecutor’s Office rested on Monday after a month of evidence of relatives and medical experts, forensic and fungi.
After the defense rests, the parties will discuss whether the Prosecutor’s Office could try to reopen his case in the light of defense evidence, Beale told the jury.
The trial, which concludes this month, continues.
