Death caps and cancer claims: how Erin Patterson responded to first day of mushroom trial cross-examination
by Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter from World news | The Guardian on (#6XRR6)
Triple murder accused also tells court she had a stupid kneejerk reaction to just dig deeper, and keep lying' to police after lunch guests died
Erin Patterson has denied deliberately foraging death cap mushrooms and weighing them to calculate the fatal dose for a person, but admitted a series of lies to police as homicide detectives investigated the fatal lunch.
On her fourth day in the witness box, Patterson's cross examination started, and the jury was told the estimate for the trial had blown out by at least a fortnight.
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