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Erin says police did not seize Phone A
By Joseph Dunstan
During the trial, there have been several phones and devices linked to Erin Patterson which have featured in the evidence.
Phone A is a phone which prosecutors allege had its SIM card swapped during a police search of Ms Patterson's home on August 5, and was never recovered.
Phone B is a phone Ms Patterson handed to police on August 5, which underwent four factory resets in 2023, including one done remotely while it was in a police locker at Spencer Street in Melbourne's CBD.
Erin says when police visited her home, Phone A was on a windowsill near a charging station.
Erin says the phone she gave police when they asked for her phone was Phone B, which she had been using at the time.
At the end of that day, Erin recalls getting home and being "a bit confused" by the property seizure record she had been given by police, which showed two Samsung devices had been taken.
She says she found a Nokia phone left in a basket, then later saw Phone A "on a windowsill".
"I was trying to piece together what was going on," she says.
"So I took the 783 SIM out of Phone A and put it into the Nokia, so that I could use the Nokia," she says.
She says she switched the Nokia on after midnight.
"It baffled me why it [the Nokia] was still in my house," she says.
