GUILTY Australia - 3 dead after eating wild mushrooms, Leongatha, Victoria, Aug 2023 *Arrest* #17

[LadyL]

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/crime/mushroom-cook-erin-patterson-accused-of-tampering-with-prison-food-that-allegedly-caused-another-inmate-to-fall-ill/news-story/b96ae06b811e3b459a3e4304fcec3ffd

Inside the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, sources described Patterson as “entitled” during her time on remand. “All the girls have issues with each other in there,” one insider said. “The unit Erin was housed in was almost like a melting pot of tension as they are confined to the middle of the jail and have to be escorted anywhere they go.”

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Patterson was subsequently placed in solitary confinement — referred to as “the slot” — for more than 22 hours a day while prison officers investigated the incident.

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The conditions of Patterson’s detention also became a point of contention during her trial. In the absence of the jury, her barrister, Colin Mandy SC, told Justice Christopher Beale that his client had been denied basic items while held at Morwell Police Station

“She had agreed with Corrections that she could have a doona and a pillow and she wasn’t given those things.”

Poor Erin Erin Erin

what's a doona?
I had no luck googling that word

 

[Bekind89]

what's a doona?
I had no luck googling that word

Thank you for asking, lol. I want to know that too.

 

[Sarahlou]

what's a doona?
I had no luck googling that word

A duvet I think.

 

[SouthAussie]

what's a doona?
I had no luck googling that word

Known as a quilt in the US and Canada.

 

[Jake18]

Maybe she had to make sure she had something with her, stashed in her purse.

I have watched the footage of her entering the service station and agree that the handbag does look as though it is containing something heavy. It has a sort of heavy swing to it.

I think something went into that toilet - maybe sanitary dispenser - not the plates, though, as the bag is too small.

Things she probably would have needed to get rid of :
- plates and cutlery any cooking utensils the death caps touched
- whatever container she had the powdered death caps in
- whatever she used to “blitz” the death caps
- gloves, assuming she wore them during the cooking process
- any dishcloths used to wipe surfaces trh death caps touched

Her son, IIRC said Erin was insistent that they still do the flying lesson, so I reckon something was in that bag she wanted to ditch.

 

[Observe_dont_Absorb]

what's a doona?
I had no luck googling that word

It's Australian for what we in the UK call a duvet and maybe other places call a quilted blanket (usually stuffed with feathers or polyester fibres).

 

[LadyL]

The Herald Sun newspaper reported that, following a dispute with the notorious mushroom chef, a fellow prisoner became sick - and pointed the finger at Patterson.

Sounds like a complete beat-up to me. Seriously.

what is 'beat-up'?
I googled it and Australian slang and didn't find what it means
I assume it's like 'a load of crap'?

 

[MrJ]

what is 'beat-up'?
I googled it and Australian slang and didn't find what it means
I assume it's like 'a load of crap'?

It just means basically an unfair accusation against someone

(UK, Australia, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.

beat up - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

en.m.wiktionary.org

 

[Monstradamus]

I wonder if she did a dry run to see if the death caps would smell.

She had excess ingredients, so I believe she did a practice run, imo.

 

[browneyes]

A duvet I think.

This woman is a piece of work.

 

[Deleted member 363451]

Gosh that hit me hard. She's just coming into a stage of life where she needs her mum more than ever- transitioning into womanhood with neither her mum nor her grandmother there to support her. My own daughter is the same age. Just breaks my heart to think of that poor little girl having to go through such pain and heartache, all because of her own mother. What will it do to get sense of self? I can only hope the love of her remaining family will help carry her through.

And she doesn't even have her grandmother Gail...

 

[LadyL]

The gas station trip. She walks like someone without a care in the world. SO VERY GUILTY.

was she parked in a handicap parking spot or do those exist in Australia?

 

[Observe_dont_Absorb]

It just means basically an unfair accusation against someone

(UK, Australia, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.

beat up - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

en.m.wiktionary.org

I've never heard this said in the UK in that context. We would say it's a 'pile on' maybe.

 

[MrJ]

was she parked in a handicap parking spot or do those exist in Australia?

Yeah they do exist here as well. You need a permit to park your car in those spots

 

[SouthAussie]

was she parked in a handicap parking spot or do those exist in Australia?

See the empty spot on the other side of the door - it has a blue square with a white wheelchair outline in it. That is the handicap parking spot. Not where she parked.

 

[tillytatler]

Throughout the trial when they mentioned the photo evidence of mushrooms on the dehydrator, I had assumed they would be really ambiguous looking specimens - probably mostly white in colour, and hard to distinguish anything about after the dehydrating process. But now that we've seen them (as a forager) it's like wooooo boy! Yes those are death caps and would set off alarm bells for any mushroom picker.

 

[Monstradamus]

what's a doona?
I had no luck googling that word

A quilt in a cover

 

[Monstradamus]

Was she a WS member?

She was. But not any more.

 

[LadyL]

I wonder if Erin was drawn to her surname...?

what do you mean? the name Prior?

Pictured: Patterson’s phone that was never recovered by police​

A photo has emerged of Patterson in hospital on 31 July, 2023, with a phone in a pink case.

The phone, which was dubbed Phone A during the trial, was never recovered by police.

The prosecution had argued it was the phone Patterson primarily used from February 2023 until August 2023, which Patterson agreed was the case.

The court heard Patterson gave police Phone B when they searched her home on 5 August 2023.

She had claimed she did so because she was in the process of changing her phone after the lunch because she didn’t want her estranged husband Simon to contact her.

Erin Patterson is pictured in hospital with her primary phone. Credit: Supreme Court of Victoria

All the evidence that brought down triple murderer Erin Patterson

A jury took just seven days to find the mother-of-two did deliberately lace a beef wellington with toxic death cap mushrooms to kill three people and almost murder a fourth.

7news.com.au

WOW I'm very surprised that they have CCTV in a clinical space

yeah that's odd that there's a camera in there
about her excuse for changing phones - she only had to block Simon

 

[LadyL]

She was. But not any more.

how did you find this out??