Australia - 3 dead after eating wild mushrooms, Leongatha, Victoria, Aug 2023 #10 *Arrest*

[Bats]

I really do not understand how there is any point whatsoever in the defence attempting to use FB comments?! Those FB "friends" had never met Erin or her in-laws IRL, so why would their words count for anything ? Of course they are going to go along with EP, they only have her side of the story.

Jmo

I think this evidence, used by the defence, is not trying to show that her FB friends support her side of the story. I don't think the defence using this evidence has got anything to do with how she feels about her in-laws etc... Nor what her social media friends think.

They are using this evidence to show the context around the prosecution's evidence (which was trying to show Erin’s feelings towards her in-laws using a few social media posts from many months before the alleged poisonings).

The defence is essentially trying to show how frivolous the evidence is.

 

[SouthAussie]

I wonder how long Erin and Simon had known each other before they married - "Marry in haste and repent at leisure" is still as true as when it was first coined, in about 1683.

I don't know how long they knew each other before they married. But it sounds as though they permanently separated when the children were quite little - a 6 year old and a 1 year old.


When Erin and her estranged husband, Simon, met in the early 2000s she was working as an RSPCA representative at the Monash city council, the court heard.

They married in 2007, and had two children, born in 2009 and 2014. Simon said during the couple’s relationship they shared a love of travel.

There were numerous separations during the course of their relationship, culminating in a final separation in 2015.

Australia’s mushroom murders trial: who are Erin Patterson and the other key figures?

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[JBowie]

There were numerous separations during the course of their relationship, culminating in a final separation in 2015.

I've mentioned before that they strike me as an odd couple. IMO, life with EP would be a living hell.

 

[katydid23]

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Iam trying to catch-up but do you think there’s a possibility she put it in to get the screen replaced? Innocently or not, there was mention of it in her fb posts. Why collect it during that investigation?

Would you hand over your phone? Everything in there, your only contact with kids, school, all services. Iam a law abiding citizen but I think I’d have trouble. Everything requires two-factor ID. My mobile is everything.

True, it would be a sacrifice to give them your cell.

HOWEVER, if you are being investigated for a triple murder and you were innocent, maybe handing over your phone would prove your innocence?

If guilty, would it possibly prove your guilt? And if so, maybe it's best to take out the memory card?

 

[Spectrix]

Agree, but I don't trust Erin's testimony at this point - other than what I can objectively obtain from news sources, the trial, etc. The "Funny smelling" experience of Erin wasn't witnessed, so I have doubts about the truth of that statement.

I suspect this might have been one of the very few things Erin said that was actually true.
I believe that the Fungi expert Dr. Thomas May noted in his testimony that dried Death Caps smelled very unpleasant.

However, we now know that Erin bought a total of 1.75KG of fresh mushrooms from Woolworths in the days prior to the lunch. That's a boat load of mushrooms. So the notion that she needed use the foul smelling dried mushrooms she accidentally picked while foraging in an Asian supermarket is sounding pretty ridiculous right now.

 

[Knitty]

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