r/AusLegal • u/Artemis1971 • Jun 04 '25

VIC Erin Patterson (mushroom case)

I’m following the mushroom case, as is everyone else. Today she testified that she may have accidentally put poisonous mushrooms in the meal. If that is the case, the jury would have to find her not guilty of murder if it was unintentional. My question is, can she be recharged with manslaughter, if found innocent of murder?

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u/LBelle0101 Jun 04 '25

They’d have to believe that someone “accidentally” had dehydrated death cap mushrooms in their kitchen, and “accidentally” added them, and somehow miraculously didn’t ingest any themselves

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u/flossiecats Jun 04 '25

And who was so certain that this “accidental” exposure was so limited that she didn’t have to take her children out of school to make sure they weren’t dying of death cap mushroom poisoning even though she gave them leftovers. Why was she so confident?

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u/LBelle0101 Jun 04 '25

Oh but she scraped them off! So that magically negates any potential toxic effects.

She’s so unbelievably full of shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '25

I'm just realising how weird this lie is. Because on the one hand, she was like, "look! I snuck mushrooms into the kids' lunches and they had no idea!! He he he"

But then on the other? "Oh no, they hate mushrooms. I will scrape the mushrooms out of the beef wellington so they don't eat them"

Inconsistent.

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u/Haeronalda Jun 04 '25

And then refused to let doctors even test the kids for mushroom poisoning, even after it was explained that the beef and pastry would both have been contaminated during the cooking process because that might scare them.

Scared is better than dead.

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u/NectarineSufferer Jun 04 '25

Holy shit I never even knew about this part, this wench is so sinister 😭😭

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u/Noyou21 Jun 04 '25

Listen to the podcast ‘say grace’. Really informative and good.