This content was published in 01 mayo 2025 – 10:13
The husband of an Australian woman accused of a triple murder with a meal poisoned with mushrooms, he told the court on Thursday that her father was “hunched” of pain before he died.
Erin Patterson, 50, is accused of killing parents and a separate husband aunt, and an attempt to murder.
He declared himself not guilty of the charges and his defense assured that the Wellington Solomillos lunch to which he added mortally poisonous mushrooms, was the result of a “terrible accident.”
On the second day of the trial, the defendant’s husband, Simon Patterson, told when he saw her parents in the hospital after being poisoned.
«Dad was much worse than mom. I was really fighting, ”he said.
“He was lying sideways, hunched over,” said Patterson, who added that his father’s face was “really faded.”
In the following days, his parents Don and Gail Patterson, as well as his aunt, Heather Wilkinson, died.
Erin Patterson’s husband, local pastor Ian Wilkinson, survived after almost two months hospitalized.
Simon Patterson was invited to lunch held at the end of July 2023 at Erin’s house in the rural town of Leongatha, in the state of Victoria.
I assure that he rejected the invitation after telling him that he felt “uncomfortable” for being invited.
She insisted, saying that she had prepared a “special food” and that he had spent a “little fortune” on the Solomillos.
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