Australia prepares for verdict in mushroom murder trial
By Alasdair Pal
Morwell, Australia (Reuters) -Bulged husband, who was accused of killing three of his old relatives of his old relatives, entered their final stages on Wednesday, and the jury will soon begin negotiations in a lawsuit that grasped the country.
50 -year -old Erin Patterson, his mother -in -law Gail Patterson, his father -in -law Donald Patterson and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson’un murders, heather’s husband Ian Wilkinson’un murder is accused of killing in July 2023.
The prosecution is looking for food for poisonous death hats and knowing that he served to his guests at his home in Leongatha, a town in Leongatha, a town of 6,000 people.
Patterson rejects charges of life imprisonment by calling the deaths of defense as a “terrible accident”.
President Judge Justice Christopher Beale began on Wednesday at the Latrobe Valley Magistrate Court in Morwell, a former coal mining town, a rose garden and a regional art gallery, the best touristic places until the second day of the jury instructions.
Beale said that the process would take at least until the end of the day, so the 14 -member jury will take its decisions on Thursday. His decisions must be unanimously.
Outside, despite the cold winter cold and raining, public members began to line up for limited seats in court before the trials began.
“I’m a real crime fanatic,” said Philip Mayers, a social worker who got up at 5 o’clock and lasted two hours from the state capital Melbourne, to take his place in court.
“You don’t hear the uniqueness of this every day.”
‘Media Madness’
The hearing caused a sensation in Morwell that Patterson demanded his trial instead of Melbourne.
Laura Heller, the owner of Jay Dee’s Cafe opposite the road from the two -storey court building, said that the work has been doubled since the start of the hearing on April 29th.
“Although not great conditions, it was very good for our community because it brought people out of the region,” he said.
Journalists, Podcasts and documentary teams from domestic and international media landed in the town for trials of the British magazine “Australia’s century trial”.
The public broadcaster ABC’s daily Podcast’s daily Podcast is currently the most popular in Australia, the flow platform Stan, says that he will soon publish a documentary and “media madness” that surrounds the case.
Mission manager John Nicoll said the Cedar Lodge motel next to the court was completely reserved and that he was unusual outside the most intense summer season.
“There was some explosion for Motel and the field in general,” he said.
(Reporting by Alasdair Pal and Cordelia HSU in Morwell; editing by Kate Mayberry)
