Australia mushroom trial live: idea that Erin Patterson wanted to kill estranged husband at lunch ‘absurd’, defence says

<p>Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder following a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow live</p><p><strong>Defence says there is ‘not one scrap of evidence’ Erin Patterson saw iNaturalist death cap posts</strong></p><p><strong>Mandy</strong> says the jury has heard there had only been three reported sightings of death cap mushrooms in the Gippsland region.</p><p>The interaction with iNaturalist was two minutes at most … it’s not very long.</p><p>This was not a person carefully studying this information, doing research about it. This was not a deep and abiding interest in this subject matter. It was passing attention.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jun/18/erin-patterson-australia-mushroom-trial-live-updates-defence-closing-address-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>