{"id":195507,"date":"2023-11-03T01:59:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T01:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=195507"},"modified":"2023-11-03T01:59:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T01:59:25","slug":"erin-patterson-poison-mushroom-chef-trembles-says-just-two-words-as-she-appears-in-court-charged-with-murder-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/erin-patterson-poison-mushroom-chef-trembles-says-just-two-words-as-she-appears-in-court-charged-with-murder-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Patterson: Poison mushroom chef 'trembles' & says just two words as she appears in court charged with murder | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
ERIN Patterson "trembled" and muttered just two words as she appeared in court charged with three counts of murder.<\/p>\n
The 49-year-old has also been charged with five counts of attempted murder after the authorities raided her home in East Victoria,\u00a0Australia on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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Four of those five counts relate to a 48-year-old Korumburra man – believed to be Erin\u2019s ex-husband Simon Patterson.<\/p>\n
He is said to have become ill on three occasions following meals in 2021 and 2022, seeing him placed into an induced coma and in ICU for 21 days.<\/p>\n
A police spokesman said on Thursday: \u201cIt\u2019s alleged a 48-year-old Korumburra man became ill following meals on these dates."<\/p>\n
Simon was supposed to go to the fateful family lunch on July 29 this year\u00a0but sources claimed he thankfully cancelled at the last minute.<\/p>\n
But tragically his parents Gail and Don Patterson, aunt Heather Wilkinson, and uncle Ian Wilkinson did eat at Erin's house.<\/p>\n She served them a beef Wellington that allegedly contained death cap mushrooms.<\/p>\n Gail and Don, both 70, later lost their lives in hospital along with Gail's sister Heather, 66.<\/p>\n Erin's fourth alleged victim, Ian, miraculously survived but was left critically ill and spent two months in a hospital.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The 68-year-old survivor of the mushroom lunch was seen last month attending his wife Heather's funeral.<\/p>\n Doctors have claimed all four of their symptoms were consistent with poisoning by death cap mushrooms, which grow wild in the area.<\/p>\n And, on Thursday morning police took several items from Erin's home using trained dogs, as reported by news.com.au.<\/p>\n Officers were witnessed hauling out bags of evidence, including tech such as hard drives and USB sticks.<\/p>\n Detective Inspector Dean Thomas. said: \u201cToday\u2019s charges are just the next step in what has been an incredibly complex, methodical and thorough investigation by homicide squad detectives."<\/p>\n He added that the investigation "is not over yet".<\/p>\n \u201cI know that people will no doubt have many unanswered questions about this matter, however I urge people to be especially mindful of unnecessary speculation and not sharing misinformation," he continued.<\/p>\n The alleged killer looked dishevelled with messy hair and a grey jumper as she appeared in court just after 10am today.<\/p>\n Patterson showed no emotion throughout the hearing other than a tremble in her jaw as she took her seat.<\/p>\n The only words she spoke were, "good morning", in response to Magistrate Tim Walsh's greeting.<\/p>\n Patterson has always furiously denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n She previously told The Australian: \u201cI lost my parents-in-law, my children lost their grandparents.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I\u2019ve been painted as an evil witch. And the media is making it impossible for me to live in this town. I can\u2019t have friends over."<\/p>\n It comes after her home was previously searched on August 5 and she quickly became a person of interest.<\/p>\n She became a suspect after questions were raised over why Patterson was the only person who did not fall ill after the meal.<\/p>\n Patterson has always claimed she did became poorly and was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n She also claimed to feed her children leftovers from dinner and they allegedly suffered no health consequences.<\/p>\n In initial statements to police, Patterson claimed she unknowingly bought the lethal mushrooms from an Asian supermarket in\u00a0Melbourne\u00a0months before the horror dinner party.<\/p>\n However, she later claimed she bought them from two different stores in Victoria.<\/p>\n Police also seized Patterson's dehydrator from a skip which is believed to have been used to prepare the poisonous meal. <\/p>\n Forensic tests and have not yet released the results.<\/p>\n In statements, Patterson claimed to have intentionally dumped the food processor.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in August, a tradesman came forward and claimed he found what was described as a\u00a0"death wall" in her former home.<\/p>\n Creepy drawings and messages had been scribbled over the wall – with one chilling note reading: "You don't [have] long to live".<\/p>\n<\/picture>FUNGI UNFOLDS <\/span><\/p>\n
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