Erin Paterson says that after eating became ill

The Australian woman in court for the murder says she threw a toxic mushroom food that killed her relatives after the dessert who used a binge drink.

Erin Paterson did not find herself guilty of four charges – three murder and for a murder attempted – on lunch from Biba Velington at her regional Victorian House in July 2023.

Prosecutors claim that Ms Paterson intentionally served mushrooms for death, but only for her guests. Her defense team claims that contaminated food was a tragic accident, and claiming that it also became ill.

On the third day of the testimony, Ms Paterson told the court that she only ate a small part of the dinner, and then consumed two -thirds of the cake before vomiting.

Ms Paterson also confessed that she was lying about the diagnosis of cancer – which the prosecutor’s office said that she persuaded the guests to her home – because she was too shy about telling them that she was actually planning to move weight loss surgery.

Three people were killed in the hospital on days after eating, including the former son-in-law Ms Paterson, the 70th Don Paterson, and the 70th Gayl Paterson, as well as his sister Gayla, Hiser Wilkinson, 66 years.

After weeks of treatment, one guest of lunch, local pastor Jan Wilkinson survived.

The court in the Supreme Court of Victoria – which began almost six weeks ago – heard from more than 50 witnesses and attracted great global attention.

In the courthouse, Mrs. Paterson spoke in detail about the deadly lunch, stating that she invited her guests to the premises that she wanted to talk about health problems.

The 14-member jury heard that Ms Paterson survived “a rather long process, trying to decide what to cook” for lunch before choosing to make Beef Wellington.

The dish – usually cooked with a long strip of steak wrapped in confectionery and mushrooms – was something than Mrs. Paterson’s mother, who was made as a child to mark special cases, she said.

In the morning of lunch, Mrs. Paterson told to deprive garlic, slot and a few trays purchased in the supermarket, which were finely chopped in a kitchen harvester.

“I cooked it for a very long time,” she said. “You have to pull almost all the water,” she added so that the mushrooms do not bake.

“When I cooked it, I tried it several times, and I thought it was a little soft,” she said.

At this point, she decided to add some dried mushrooms that she bought from an Asian grocery in Melbourne a few months earlier and kept in the pantry.

Asked if there were other types of mushrooms in this container, Mrs. Paterson, panting, said, “Now I think there is a chance that there are and shut.”

Yesterday, the court heard that Ms Paterson began to harvest mushrooms in places close to the Lanth House in 2020, and her long -standing love for mushrooms expanded to include wild mushrooms because they have “more aroma”.

Ms Paterson told the court that she had given food and instructed her guests to grab a plate when she finished preparing the sauce.

There were no plates, she said in the trial.

Earlier, Mr. Wilkinson told the court that each of the guests was given gray plates, while Ms Paterson eaten orange.

Having interrogated Colin’s defender Mandy, Mrs. Paterson said she had no gray plates, instead of listing black plates, white plates and the one that was red and black.

During the lunch, Ms Paterson said she did not eat much food – “a quarter, a third, somewhere there,” because she was busy with a conversation.

After the guests left, she removed the kitchen and ate a slice of the orange pie, brought, and then “another piece, and another piece” before finishing the rest of the cake.

“I got bad … excessively, so I went to the toilet and returned it again,” she said.

“Once I did it, I felt better.”

Yesterday, the court heard that Ms Paterson fought with bulimia after teenagers and was prone to binge and vomiting after eating regularly.