The mushroom poisoning in Vic...... we are gripped!.....Part 3

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New thread! Cheers @echt for noticing!

Case resumes tomorrow Australian time, so about 12 hours from now. It’s about 10pm Monday night right now.

I had no idea that the steak was so expensive. Currently $54/kg. That’s crazy. And then to cover it in mustard, mushrooms and pastry? What a waste of good steak.

Lego is absolutely nothing like cooking. No sensory issues, no dexterity required, judging of flavours amid uncertainty. Lego is simple. Open box. Follow steps. Assemble with your clean hands, nothing happening simultaneously, no people involved either now or later to judge it or compare it to their own efforts, no societal pressure to be good at it. And Lego pretty much guarantees you success in that very contained endeavour. Totally different ballgame!

Fair enough, I guess you can't really compare cooking and lego! I'll definitely stick with cooking 😍

Cooking rocks - you get lovely meals out of it!! Win win.

Oh, my, she's just burying herself in lies now. While calling all the others who've given evidence (even by extension her own children) liars.

They questioned her on the clinic!

from the abc site:

”Medical appointment queried
By Joseph Dunstan
Prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC picks up her cross-examination right where she left off.
On Friday, Erin Patterson told the court she had had an appointment booked in at an "Enrich" clinic in Melbourne in early September, 2023.
The court hears the appointment was later cancelled.
"The Enrich clinic does not offer gastric-bypass surgery or gastric-sleeve surgery. Agree or disagree?" Dr Rogers asks Erin.
"I don't know," Ms Patterson replies. She says she's "puzzled" because she recalls having an appointment with them for gastric-bypass surgery.
"It would have been related to weight-loss surgery, perhaps it was a different procedure I was doing with them ... I was looking into liposuction as well," Ms Patterson says.
Dr Rogers puts to Ms Patterson that she lied to the court when she said she had an appointment at the clinic for gastric-band surgery.
"Not, it wasn't a lie, that's what my memory was," Ms Patterson says.”

Wow.

Was just about to say they’ve picked up on the clinic not doing bypass surgery. Surely the clinic must have records of whether she had an appointment or not.?

How would someone not know what they had an appointment for?!

They also said ‘the court hears the appointment (not sure where this info came from so whether fact or not) was later cancelled’.

So either way, it sounds like there was no appointment when the lunch happened…

She’s got herself into a right pickle with the lies.

Last week she told court she had to stop and relieve herself in bushes at the side of the highway.

Her son has said at no time did she need to stop to go to the toilet.

I have young DC - this is something that they would definitely remember if it had happened!

her phone records show her driving to Outrim

Far fucking out! You don't have surgery at a clinic. You have it in a hospital. With your consultant surgeon, consultant anaesthetist and their team.

I doubt she ever booked gastric bypass surgery at all.

Tanya Patterson previously told the court that during her visit to Erin Patterson, a toxicologist entered and said that Erin was fine and well enough to go home, Dr Rogers recaps.
She also told the court that Erin had flagged low potassium with her and a doctor, who told her that her levels were fine and not as low as might be expected in someone who'd had severe diarrhoea.

can't hide from the blood test

“Are you making this up as you go along?” Question from the prosecution.

This must be so painful to watch for the surviving family.

I’m sad for her kids. This must be so confusing for them.

hopefully they are being sheltered from the facts as much as they can, very difficult for their father as well

For someone who has so much trouble recalling what she did she seems very good at remembering what other people did or didn't say. And how many times can she claim to be puzzled by things..

I wonder if she has any friends or family who are supporting her.

She has no trouble remembering the things which help her case but great difficulty remembering the things the prosecution put to her about which don’t help her case. Which is typical guilty behaviour.

“Why wouldn't I just say there was no leftovers? That seems really convoluted,"

Maybe because you knew they’d have searched and found them anyway?!

Lots of talk about the spare wellington (presumably made for Simon) but I can’t see mention of whether it was found to have DCM yet.

All her lies are convoluted. Her defence stated she's lied about having cancer. Why not stick with that? But no, she had to invent another (tragic) sobstory for the jury, with her weight and binge-eating, and this maybe I would be having a gastric bypass, but made up the ovarian cancer as a cover. She is destroying her own defence, that might have worked!

https://images.app.goo.gl/Tp51dehagttVRjwc9

George Constanza is on point yet again

She sounds so unpleasant in these written statements (just been catching up on the ABC's blog). I can't imagine how she is coming across to the jury during this crossexamination just from tone and body language alone - apart from all the obvious lies and contradictions and saying everyone else, including her son, are lying...

I think she undid herself with the gastric bypass appointment story, which was so easily disproved and nonsensical, and she is now just basically unravelling.

Her defence team must be banging their heads on their desks.

She must have pushed to say her bit, I can’t imagine a defence lawyer wanting her on the stand. Unless the law in Australia dictates she must take the stand??

What other defence does she have though? From the reporting last week there seemed to be a doubt that there were any other defence witnesses.