I was confirmed Baptist in the 80’s in Aust but the Baptist church is not governed in the same way Catholic, Anglican, etc are. Yes, you’re correct, regarding the community and family situation. Some Baptists are very strict but others are pretty chilled. Our neighbour, a Baptist Pastor, loved a good red but when I was young, Baptists didn’t drink for eg in my church.
The property probably uses a bio-system septic if it’s semi-rural and yes, you’re right, flushing may not have been a good disposal. I still think it’s odd she left anything to chance, if she was guilty, why have any trace at home.
EP said in her evidence that she asked her daughter if she wanted to stay for the lunch - Daughter said in her evidence that they couldn’t stay because it was just for adults as they had to discuss ‘adult stuff’.
To clarify, the visual and microscopic analysis performed by Dr Truong was not testing for toxins in the leftovers but physical remnants of mushrooms, including spores.
She says she did not find any death cap mushroom pieces.
Probably another aspect relating to after the event that she hadn’t thought through. But, I don’t think she would have it on her radar that animals would/could get into the bin. It really just isn’t a common thing here.
To clarify, the visual and microscopic analysis performed by Dr Truong was not testing for toxins in the leftovers but physical remnants of mushrooms, including spores.
She put on gloves and used sterilised tweezers and a microscope, the court hears.
She says she did not find any death cap mushroom pieces.
She then returned the remnants to the bag and placed it in her fridge.
The next day she took the leftovers to the lab at the Royal Botanic Gardens.
“I pulled out all the little pieces of mushrooms on a tray … I also took photographs of the spores I was observing.”
Asked by the prosecutor, Nanette Rogers SC, if she found any death cap mushrooms in the item, she says “no I didn’t”.
Truong says the only mushrooms she found were “field mushrooms” which can be found in supermarkets.
It was only in further testing by Head of forensic science and chief toxicologist Dimitri Gerostamoulos that the beta-amanitin toxins were identified in the leftovers.
No, I believe she was projecting forward to the future, imagining she would feel ashamed and not wanting to tell anyone.
It was said early in the piece that Erin asked Simon’s brother if he would look after them, but I don’t know if that’s what happened.
Maybe the purpose of buying the dehydrator was for the Death Caps ( or any other suss varieties) that she didn’t want contaminating her everyday cooking utensils,
I get that but it was common and while I didn’t eat mushrooms then, my family did. I loved foraging. It was part of country life. I knew not to pick poisonous ones. There were no death caps in my region and I didn’t hear about death caps until the Canberra incident. Iam cautious now and happy to buy them.On a separate note, I've never understood foraging. If I loved wild-picking strawberries, but there was a 0.1% chance I'd land on a fatal version, I don't think I would.
And their mushrooms for God's sake, it's not like you're picking steak
I used to use a dehydrator and it was great for tomatoes, fruit, drying things that were in peak season. I may still have it, but I stopped using it as it was painfully long, 14 hrs to dry grapes. It wasn’t cost effective.
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I believe it was a matter of urgency, Monash Health called Dr Truong on July 31st while the four patients were in hospital.
Are you saying that you know the children are with their father ?
“Dr Gerostamoulos said the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine tested meat, pastry and mushroom paste samples from beef Wellington located in Ms Patterson’s bin after the lunch.To clarify, the visual and microscopic analysis performed by Dr Truong was not testing for toxins in the leftovers but physical remnants of mushrooms, including spores.
She put on gloves and used sterilised tweezers and a microscope, the court hears.
She says she did not find any death cap mushroom pieces.
She then returned the remnants to the bag and placed it in her fridge.
The next day she took the leftovers to the lab at the Royal Botanic Gardens.
“I pulled out all the little pieces of mushrooms on a tray … I also took photographs of the spores I was observing.”
Asked by the prosecutor, Nanette Rogers SC, if she found any death cap mushrooms in the item, she says “no I didn’t”.
Truong says the only mushrooms she found were “field mushrooms” which can be found in supermarkets.
It was only in further testing by Head of forensic science and chief toxicologist Dimitri Gerostamoulos that the beta-amanitin toxins were identified in the leftovers.
