As much as any moment, the video shown to the Victorian supreme court helped give the murder accused shape after weeks of silence

• Who are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?

Erin Patterson watched herself on a screen, her voice filling court room four of the Latrobe Valley law courts in Morwell.

She had done little but stand up and sit down, and watch on silently, throughout the first 20 days of her triple murder trial, as more than 50 witnesses catalogued their own role in her story.

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