Daves2017 wrote on Apr 29^th, 2025 at 6:30pm:



I can understand that - remember Lindy Chamberlain?

The forensic evidence mixed up foetal blood and an anti-rust chemical from the car.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/feb/25/internationaleducationnews.australia


Joy Kuhl identified foetal blood in a car belonging to Lindy Chamberlain - the crucial evidence that led to her conviction for killing her baby daughter, Azaria, near Ayres Rock, in 1980. Six years later, she admitted to a royal commission she was mistaken and the "blood" was an anti-rust chemical. Ms Chamberlain, who claimed a dingo had stolen her baby, was cleared.

That was CNN and Reuters -
it also made it on to BBC world news:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5dj9q011lo




6 hours ago

Justice Christopher Beale told the jury that most if not all them would probably have been aware of the previous charges in relation to Patterson's husband, but said that the Director of Public Prosecutions had dropped them.

"In other words... you must put them out of your mind," he said.

He also urged them to "dispassionately" weigh the evidence in the case, using their heads and not their hearts.

The trial is being held at a small courthouse in Morwell, about 60km (37 miles) from Leongatha, Victoria, where prosecutors allege the lunch took place.

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Katy Watson, Simon Atkinson and Tiffanie Turnbull
BBC News, Morwell and Sydney

Yes Grapps,
but her story won't add up -
if she really got those mushrooms from a shop then why didn't
dozens of other customers and their families die too?


She was an expert in mushroom foraging -
so it looks like she went foraging -
found some death caps and cooked them in a meal for her victims.

I can't find evidence of something I heard or saw on the internet.
I remember hearing that she posted an article in the local newspaper
about how to safely forage for wild mushrooms and
she did so as a so called expert -
she was known as an expert.


If you go to a mushroom identifier website such as:
https://www.mushroom.world/mushrooms/identification


It says:

Quote:

There should be 12 posters good and true who can be sworn to  allegiance and probity all.  Cheap and reliable.

Bobby. wrote on Apr 30^th, 2025 at 12:07pm:


The prosecution have to prove beyond doubt that she deliberately poisoned everyone.

Bobby. wrote on Apr 30^th, 2025 at 2:01pm:


Those facts will be addressed in court.

Update:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c23054k1x05t


Key things we heard on day one of trial

published at 16:49
16:49

Helen Sullivan
Live reporter

The prosecution and defence have finished their opening statements on the first day of Erin Patterson's trial. Here's what they told the court:

Erin Patterson invited her estranged husband Simon Patterson, his parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and his aunt and uncle, Ian and Heather Wilkinson, to lunch to discuss "some medical issues that she had", prosecutors said, and at lunch she told them she had cancer

All attended except her husband Simon, who pulled out the day before. Three of the guests at the lunch later died from death cap mushroom poisoning

Prosecutors alleged that Ms Patterson lied about having cancer, using it as a pretence to have the adults at lunch without Ms Patterson's children present - the defence denied this and said Ms Patterson did have cancer

Ms Patterson served individual beef wellington portions – a dish of beef, mushroom paste, and pastry – to her guests on grey plates, while she ate off a smaller, orange plate, according to guest Ian Wilkinson, who became seriously ill after the lunch, but survived

The prosecution said Ms Patterson had posted online about using a food dehydrator to cook mushrooms, and wrote she had been "hiding powdered mushrooms in everything", the prosecution said

The prosecution also said Ms Patterson's fingerprints were found on a food dehydrator she was seen on CCTV dumping after the lunch. The dehydrator tested positive for death cap mushrooms, the jury was told

The prosecution alleged Ms Patterson lied about buying the dried mushrooms from an Asian grocery store, and that mobile phone data suggests she travelled to where death cap mushrooms grew

The defence argued that "what happened was a tragedy, a terrible accident" and Ms Patterson did not intend to hurt anyone
Ms Patterson's behaviour is being portrayed as "incriminating" by the prosecution, the defence said - but she "panicked" after her guests became ill: "Might people say or do things that are not well thought out... and might make them look bad?"
The defence said Ms Patterson was "generous and kind" to her family