‘Is that how you poisoned my parents?’: Erin Patterson tells mushroom trial husband confronted her over dehydrator
Triple murder accused, who denies deliberately poisoning anyone, tells court she dumped dehydrator used to dry foraged mushrooms due to feeling scared' of child protection officers seeing it
Erin Patterson has told a court her estranged husband asked her if she had used a dehydrator to poison his parents, and admitted resetting her phone out of fear police would discover photos she had of foraged mushrooms.
In her third day in the witness box, Patterson also said she thinks there is a possibility" that foraged mushrooms were unintentionally added to her beef wellington mixture as she tried to improve its bland" flavour, and lied to her lunch guests about having cancer because she was embarrassed about planned weight-loss surgery.
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