Police grill Erin Patterson over mushroom lunch deaths in footage played to triple murder trial

Video played to Victorian supreme court shows murder accused denying owning food dehydrator and describing ‘love’ for in-laws

A video of Erin Patterson’s interview with police has been shown during her triple murder trial, with the footage showing her telling detectives she did not own a food dehydrator, despite them having just found a manual for one in her house.

Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning her four lunch guests – relatives of her estranged husband, Simon Patterson – with a beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha on 29 July 2023.

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