The accused weighed the deadly dose on the kitchen scales, the prosecutors say

The Australian woman accused of killing relatives of Velington’s beef, recorded herself using kitchen scales to calculate the deadly dose of toxic mushrooms, prosecutors say.

Erin Paterson did not find herself guilty of killing three people and attempts to kill another house in regional Victoria in July 2023. The 50-year-old girl says she never intended to harm them, and it was a tragic accident.

On Thursday, prosecutors offered photos found on her phone, which show that wild mushrooms weigh, reflect its measurement of the amount required to kill its guests.

Ms Paterson told the court that she most likely made questions, but said she did not believe that the mushrooms had their deaths.

Ms. Paterson’s son -in -law, Don and Gale Paterson, both 70, together with his sister Gayla Hilkinson, 66 years old, became ill and died a few days after lunch.

Hiser’s husband, local pastor Jan Wilkinson, was also hospitalized, but healed after leaving a week caused by a coma.

The loud trial, which started almost six weeks ago, has already heard from more than 50 witnesses of the prosecution. Ms Paterson became the first witness to the defense to take position on Monday afternoon.

During the cross -interrogation by the prosecutor, Ms Paterson confessed that three months before the July lunch, despite the fact that she had no.

The court also showed images made at the end of April 2023 and flew from Ms. Paterson’s phone, which draws the weighing of mushrooms.

Earlier, Ms Paterson confessed that she had repeatedly removed electronic data in the days after lunch, because she was afraid that when the officers found such pictures, they accused her of the death of the guests.

Specifying the earlier evidence of the expert with the mushrooms, who said that the mushrooms in the pictures were “very consistent” with the restrictions of death, D -Rgers claimed that Ms Paterson deliberately gained them a few days before.

She saw the post on Inaturalist – Web -Sight for Cutting Plants and Observations of Animals – and went to the Loch area ten days later to select toxic mushrooms, said D -Rgers.

Ms Paterson said she could not remember whether she went to the city this day, but denied that she had gone there to find mushrooms for death or that she saw an unnatural position.

“I suppose you weighed these mushrooms so you can calculate the weight you need for … a fatal dose,” D -Ragers put her.

“Disagree,” Ms Paterson replied.

Mother of the two years also told about putting dried mushrooms in a number of products such as spaghetti, brownies and stews, which the prosecutor’s office claims that it practices a fatal lunch.

Ms Paterson said it was not, but rather an attempt to get “extra vegetables from my children”.

The prosecutors repeatedly asked her, with different formulations each time, or deliberately used the same food dehydator to prepare mushrooms for lunch.

CCTV played at the trial, shows that Ms Paterson disposes of a local dump.

“That’s why you left the day after being released from (hospital) to get rid of evidence,” said D -Rgers.

“No,” Ms Paterson replied.

Earlier, Ms. Paterson’s lawyer asked her why she repeatedly lied to the police about the harvesting of mushrooms and the presence of a dehydler.

“It was this stupid reaction to the knee to dig deeper and continue to lie,” she said in court. “I was just scared, but I didn’t have to do it.”

Ms Paterson also repeated her statement that she never intentionally put poisonous mushrooms.

She said that mushrooms used in beef velington can accidentally include dried, harvested varieties stored in a container with purchased in the store.

Ms Paterson also conducted a survey about the evidence of other witnesses that she had asked her guests to come for lunch to discuss health problems, namely cancer diagnosis.

She said she did not say she had cancer, but she still should not mislead her relatives, saying that she had done it in part because their care made her feel loved.

“I guess you never thought you would have to consider this lies about cancer because you thought the guests would die,” said D -Rgers. “Your lie will never be clarified.”

“It’s not true,” said Ms Paterson.

It will restore the crossed review on Friday.