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The jury will enter the court room from 2.15pm.

Justice Christopher Beale will continue delivering his charge to jurors.

Judge begins charge to jurors, saying they must weigh evidence against triple murder accused ‘with an open mind, not according to your feelings’

The judge in Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial has urged the jury to put aside any sympathy they may feel for her lunch guests and continue to ignore unprecedented media attention in the case.

Justice Christopher Beale started his charge to the jury on Tuesday at the Latrobe Valley law courts in Morwell, Victoria. It was expected the charge, or jury directions, would take at least two days, before the jury retired to consider its verdict.

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder following a fatal mushroom lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow live

Welcome to day 36 of Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial.

We’re expecting the trial to resume from 10.30am.

Murder accused’s barrister also warns jurors against using ‘dangerous and seductive’ hindsight reasoning to find mushroom lunch cook guilty

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Erin Patterson’s barrister says the jury in her triple murder trial cannot be convinced she did not eat the same beef wellingtons as her lunch guests, and should ignore evidence from the only other survivor of the meal that she served herself on a different coloured plate.

Colin Mandy SC also said in his closing address that Patterson was “not on trial for being a liar”, and warned jurors against using “dangerous and seductive” hindsight reasoning to find her guilty.

Patterson, 50, is facing three charges of murder and one of attempted murder in the Victorian supreme court.

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

Rogers says what Patterson “outwardly” portrayed did not always align with her “true feelings”.

She says Simon gave evidence that when he told her his parents were in hospital the day after the lunch Patterson never asked about them.

Prosecutor also tells court Patterson lied about cancer to lunch guests because she thought ‘her lie would die with them’

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Four calculated deceptions are at the heart of Erin Patterson’s triple-murder case, the prosecution has claimed in its closing address to the jury, including a lie about cancer the accused hoped would “die with” her lunch guests.

On Monday, Nanette Rogers SC spent day 32 of the trial closing the prosecution case, outlining these four deceptions: Patterson’s fabricated cancer claim; the “lethal doses” of death cap mushrooms “secreted” in home-cooked beef wellingtons; Patterson’s attempts to make it seem she also suffered death cap mushroom poisoning; and the “sustained cover-up she embarked upon to conceal the truth”.

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Patterson tells court her children were mistaken when they said she served herself leftover beef wellington the night of the lunch

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Erin Patterson has finished giving evidence in her triple murder trial, bringing an end to eight days of testimony in the Victorian supreme court.

Patterson answered “disagree” to three final questions from prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC on Thursday morning: that she deliberately sourced death caps in 2023, included them in beef wellingtons served to her lunch guests, and intended to kill them when she did so.

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Prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC turns to evidence about factory resets performed on the mobile referred to as “Phone B”.

The court previously heard four resets – one in February 2023 and three in August 2023 – were performed on the phone that Erin Patterson provided to police during the search on 5 August 2023.

Rogers says one of these resets were done when she was left alone to call a lawyer while police searched Patterson’s Leongatha home.

Patterson rejects this and says she phoned a lawyer at 2pm.

Rogers says Patterson performed the three factory resets after the lunch to “conceal” the contents on Phone B.

Patterson rejects this.

Rogers then turns to her final points in the cross-examination.

She suggests Patterson deliberately sourced death cap mushrooms in 2023.

Patterson rejects this.

Rogers says Patterson deliberately included death cap mushrooms in the beef wellingtons she served her lunch guests.

It’s an agreed fact in this case.... that this [phone number] lost connection ... could be due to:

a. The sim card being removed from the handset;

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

Prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC says Erin Patterson’s son gave evidence that she did not tell him she was sick on the day of the lunch.

“I don’t know if I did or I didn’t,” Patterson says.

The first thing he said to me was something like: I’ve got a sore tummy.

How could I? It’s vomit. Unless you can see a bean or a piece of corn.

Patterson also tells triple-murder trial she’s ‘puzzled’ clinic she says she had an appointment with for a gastric bypass offers no such surgery

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Erin Patterson says she is “puzzled” that a clinic in which she said she had an appointment for a gastric bypass offers no such surgery, and denies lying about making herself vomit in the hours immediately after the beef wellington lunch, a court has heard.

In her sixth day in the witness box, Patterson was repeatedly asked under cross-examination by prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC whether she was lying about the deadly lunch and other parts of her evidence before her triple-murder trial.

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Patterson denies telling ex-partner she had important medical news she wanted advice on

Rogers says Simon gave evidence that on 16 July 2023 – two weeks prior to the lunch – Patterson approached him after a church service and said she had some important medical news she wanted advice on and how to break it to the children.

Triple murder accused, who denies deliberately poisoning anyone, tells court she dumped dehydrator used to dry foraged mushrooms due to feeling ‘scared’ of child protection officers seeing it

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Erin Patterson has told a court her estranged husband asked her if she had used a dehydrator to poison his parents, and admitted resetting her phone out of fear police would discover photos she had of foraged mushrooms.

In her third day in the witness box, Patterson also said she thinks there is a “possibility” that foraged mushrooms were unintentionally added to her beef wellington mixture as she tried to improve its “bland” flavour, and lied to her lunch guests about having cancer because she was embarrassed about planned weight-loss surgery.

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