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A quick web search of beef Wellington recipes indicates that typically beef wellingtons provide between 4 and 8 servings. To account for EP’s version of events, her beef Wellington would have needed to be a minimum of 8 servings. (4 for the guests, 1 for her, 2 for children as leftovers and 1...

Thanks for sharing that video. I have to agree with the panel that some of her answers did sound a bit rehearsed and egocentric. When I try to imagine being in that situation, with the media asking questions about the meal, I can’t understand why one wouldn’t be wanting to warn the public...

Yes sometimes mistakes are made but Food Standards Australia and government health authorities respond very swiftly to investigate and mitigate any risk to the public when these mistakes or contaminations are identified. There were no recalls or warnings to the public about imported or local...

Yes and I can imagine mushroom spores might be hard to completely remove as they would have been puffed around by the dehydrator’s fan and are too small to be seen without a microscope. https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/amanita-phalloides.php I wonder if the children saw her trying to clean...

I believe that EP herself referred to SP asking “is that what you used to poison them?” in her leaked statement. It was not necessarily overheard but allegedly said to her. In her statement it is used to justify her act of dumping the dehydrator in a panic as she said she was worried about...

One possibility is that the children saw it in her car and were asking why it was in there. It is possible that the children’s questions did not have any connection with the lunch. She may have dropped them to the cinema on the Saturday morning and headed to the tip afterward. Or the children...

I understand the dehydrator was recovered from the tip on the Friday before the police interviewed her on the Saturday. EP saying she dumped it after the accusation from SP is only her words, not necessarily truth. It may have been dumped on the weekend of the lunch. Possibly the children being...

Yes that is what I was trying to say.

Yes, it stands out to me that her ex-husband voiced suspicion very early on (according to EP’s statement) when he asked, “is that what you used to poison my parents?” I don’t understand why he would suspect that if things were amicable?

I agree, it is really hard to speculate on motive with so little information, and we also can’t presume that any motive will seem rational to anyone but the hypothetical perpetrator. Equally, the likelihood of being caught and the consequences, might be evaluated differently by someone not...

“I really want to repeat that I had absolutely no reason to hurt these people whom I loved." If I was to try to speculate on a reason for EP to intentionally poison her guests I would probably frame it in the context of an acrimonious separation with her ex husband and issues following their...

Was it this article? https://www.sgst.com.au/news/police-no-comment-on-reports-it-was-mushroom-poisoning

Well if it was unintentional she is already experiencing so many probably avoidable consequences by not coming clean. The awful scrutiny and accusations from the public and the media, feeling that her movements are limited by the throng of media wherever she goes, anxiety provoking questions...

Today marks two months since the lunch. If it was an unintentional foraging mistake, surely EP would have come clean by now to avoid drawing out all hers and her family’s suffering. I don’t think many would put so much on the line just to save face.

You are right, it is anomalous with a meticulously planned deceit. Cctv cameras and witnesses at the tip would be foreseen by most people. She probably would have been better off dumping it elsewhere. Though she may have dumped it on the Saturday or Sunday before the guests fell ill, or even...

I think she was hoping no-one would have found out about the dehydrator being dumped and instead happily believed her stories that the deadly mushrooms were store bought or bought from Asian grocery.

The context for the discussion of local schools was in response to a question further up the thread of whether distance needed to travel to a different school might be a factor in where children might live, e.g. with a different parent or grandparents. It is not sleuthing the children but...

Not local either but Google tells me Leongatha also has Chairo Christian School which caters to children from kindergarten to grade 10, and a campus at a nearby suburb for grades 11 and 12. It is possible that Chairo might be a school of choice for a family with a Christian faith or a preference...

Yes, and during most separations and divorces parties can usually agree to division of property and care and living arrangements for their children without needing to apply to the Family Court. If the relationship breakdown is particularly acrimonious, as theirs might be, it is possible that one...

As an Australian it is still ambiguous to me. I would have interpreted it the same way as you. Without more information we really can’t be sure if it just means just a more decisive end to the relationship instead of an on/off limbo stage that happens with some relationship break-ups. In...