Erin Patterson, woman from Australia accused of killing her three relatives and seriously injured one with a toxic meal mushroomsshe went up to the dock to testify in her trial.
Erin Patterson has gone innocently in the four categories she is facing – three for homicide and one for attempted homicide – about deadly meal with toxic mushrooms that served them in her house in the town of Morgwell, Victoria in Australia, in July 2023.
The victims were her former mother -in -law, Don and Gail Patterson (70 years old), and her sister Gail, Heather Wilkinson (66), while a fourth person, Ian Wilkinson, 71, and pastor, survived. In fact, lied to them that she had cancer And that she didn’t know how to tell her children to bring her ex -husband’s family to the death table.
Prosecutors argue that it was deliberately supplied and cooked poisonous mushrooms for her relatives before lies to the police and destroying evidence.
However, the defense claims that Patterson served her poison in her loved ones and then “He panicked.”
Patterson described her relationship with her dimensional husband as’functional” Asked about self -esteem She replied that she did not feel well physically and that she was fighting for an endless battle for self -esteem for most of her adult life.
According to her, for some months in 2023 she felt that her relationship with the wider Patterson family – and in particular her mother -in -law, Don and Gail – had a longer distance.
“We were less,” he said. “I had begun to worry that Simon didn’t want to deal with the family anymore.”
Asked about her religious faith, during her acquaintance with Simon Pterson, the 50 -year -old self -characterized as “fundamentally atheist” while her husband was a Christian at that time.
In fact, she argued that from December 2004 to February 2005, they had many discussions about life, politics and religion and admitted that: “I was trying to convince him to become atheist and things were reversed, I became a Christian.”
Referring to birth of her sondescribed her as ‘Very traumatic’ experience.
“It had been a long time, they were trying to get the baby out, but it didn’t come out. His life began to be in danger, the doctors lost his heartbeat, “he testified, almost crying out explaining that her doctors had been caesarean to save the child.
After describing in detail a brief period of dimension with her husband while their child was still an infant, Patterson admitted that the two had struggled to solve their disagreements.
“If we had a problem is that we couldn’t communicate when we disagreed with something,” he said. “We just felt wounded and we didn’t know how to solve it.” As he said, this tension was reinforced by the issue of their son’s raising, “because we both loved him.”
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Patterson is accused of the murders of 2023, the mother -in -law of Gail Patterson, her mother -in -law Donald Patterson and her sister Gail, Heather Wilkinson. He also faces charges of attempting to assassinate Jan Wilkinson, Heather’s wife.
The four people were seriously ill after lunch at the accused’s home in the small town of Leongha (about 6,000 inhabitants), 135 kilometers from Melbourne. According to the prosecution, poisonous mushrooms were contained in Wellington beef.
At the start of the trial in April, Patterson’s lawyer told the court that they would argue that “tragedy” was one “Awesome accident”.
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