Overview

• Senior Crown prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC outlined four alleged lies, including a fabricated cancer diagnosis meant to lure Patterson’s estranged in-laws to the July 2023 lunch
• Prosecutors say Patterson foraged for death cap mushrooms near her home using iNaturalist as a guide, dehydrated them and hid the toxin in individually plated beef Wellingtons
• Evidence shows Patterson served her own meal on a different plate and discharged herself from hospital minutes after being told of the poisoning, actions described as an attempt to avoid detection
• The trial, now in its eighth week, has seen the prosecution rest its case and will proceed to defence closing arguments before Justice Beale instructs the jury and sends them to deliberate
• Patterson, 50, pleads not guilty to three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder and maintains the deaths were a tragic accident