Could Patterson go the well-trodden "diminished responsibility" path?

Only if they can eventually providing some proof she actually put the mushrooms in the meal.

I’m sure eventually they will submit some proof to the court after all the heresy and this is our vibe of what occurred unproven rubbish is finally done with.

The way it’s going atm I suggest I could argue equally as well “ a dingo” put the deadly mushrooms in the meal!

Why bother with proof when you don’t have any?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-04/blog-erin-patterson-trial-wednesday-june-...

9m ago

We return to the preparation of the deadly lunch
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By Joseph Dunstan

We're back on the meal preparations, as Erin outlines how she fried the steaks on both sides, then let them rest.

Then she assembled the beef Wellingtons.

"I used the egg flip again to, I guess, lift a little bit [of the duxelles] out of the oven try and put on each steak ... and then wrapped each one in filo, and then wrapped each one in puff pastry," she says.

She says she made six of the individual beef Wellingtons.

"At the appropriate time, I put them in the oven ... I wanted them to be out and resting by 12:30 [when guests arrived]," she says.

So now she claims that she ate too much cake after the beef wellington meal and
so she made herself vomit and that's why she didn't get sick from the mushrooms.

Latest news from trial:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-05/erin-patterson-mushroom-murder-trial-blog...


4m ago

Prosecution continues on Erin's conversation at hospital

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Dr Rogers suggests that Erin lied to the doctor about mushrooming.

Erin responds that "nobody was interested in what I did months and years ago" during those conversations, and that everything was all centred specifically on the meal.

"Are you telling this jury that you understood Professor Stuart to be asking you questions only about the beef Wellington?" Dr Rogers asks.

"I believe that's what I understood at the time, yes," Erin says.


Key Event
8m ago
Erin says she doesn't recall denying foraging mushrooms
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By Joseph Dunstan

Erin's asked about previous evidence from another senior doctor at Monash Health, Rhonda Stuart, who saw Ms Patterson days after the lunch.

The doctor previously told the court she asked Erin where she had bought the mushrooms in the meal from but Erin was unable to tell her specifically.

Professor Stuart previously told the court she had asked Erin "if she'd been mushrooming and if she'd used any other mushrooms" but Erin told her no, she'd only used the two types of mushrooms described, from Woolworths and the Asian grocer.

"Do you accept that Professor Stuart asked you if you'd been mushrooming?" Dr Rogers asks.

"I accept that that's what she said," Ms Patterson says.

"Did you, in effect, say no to Professor Stuart?"

"To which question?"

"If you'd been mushrooming."

"I don't remember that conversation."

Dr Rogers suggests that in that conversation, Erin denied going mushrooming to Professor Stuart.

"I don't remember the conversation," Erin repeats.

Daves2017 wrote on Jun 5^th, 2025 at 3:12pm:


I agree. If there was ever intent of murder of 4 persons, one would think of being more discreet so as not as obvious. She’s just too easy for the pickings and trial by media imo.
I would hate to be part of jury duty… I think it’s manslaughter… not murder.

I read how she was saying her son and grandfather were like 2 minds together. They got on so well.
I doubt she would want to kill that.
Very sad, tragic.

Erin Patterson seems to be the type of person who will lie if they think
it can be advantageous for them.
She better not lie in court – that would be perjury.

She has told so many lies outside of court -
to the doctors at the hospital,
to the police, to her guests at the meal,
the list goes on and on.
Is she a compulsive liar?


Latest here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-06/live-blog-erin-patterson-mushroom-murder-...

Just like her cooking.