Erin Patterson trial: Jury indicates verdicts to judge in mushroom murder case
Erin Patterson’s jury members at the triple murder hearing marked that they had reached decisions in the case.
The court is expected to re -meet at 14:00 on Monday.
50 -year -old Patterson is on trial after claiming that he was not guilty of three murders caused by a lunch he hosted at Leongatha home in Southeast Victoria on July 29, 2023.
Two mothers, her husband Simon Patterson’s death hat mushrooms to four members of the bench Wellington dinner served.
Simon’s parents Don and Gail Patterson and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson died of death heading poisoning during the week watching the lunch while heather’s husband Ian Wilkinson survived.
Prosecutors claim that Ms. Patterson deliberately searches and includes deadly mushrooms who want to kill their guests or at least to seriously injure them seriously.
On the other hand, his defense argued that poisoning was an unintentional and tragic accident – questioning why Mrs. Patterson wanted to kill her loved ones.
More than eight weeks of evidence heard more than 50 witnesses, including jury members, family, doctors, experts and MS Patterson at the hearing.
The jury of eight males and five women was deliberately sent shortly after 13:00 on Monday, which was said to be unanimously.
7 days have passed since they were sent.
Throughout the negotiations, the jury members are lined up in a hotel and make limited contact with the outside world that delivers their phones.
In his last words, Justice Beale said that they will meet from Monday to Saturday and they would be given as long as they received.
