The court has heard Ms Patterson, 50, cooked and served a beef wellington meal containing toxic death cap mushrooms at her home in regional Victoria in July 2023, which killed three relatives and seriously injured another
The prosecution says Ms Patterson included the poisonous mushrooms deliberately – she denies this and her defence team says it was a “terrible accident”
Her estranged husband’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, both died as well as Gail Patterson’s sister, Heather Wilkinson. Heather’s husband, Ian Wilkinson, became ill but survived
Her testimony today centred on the breakdown of her marriage and health anxieties which developed in the lead up to the lunch for her relatives at her home
Yesterday, she told the court that her relationship with her in-laws had grown more distant by 2023
