Overview

• The jury viewed footage of Patterson’s August 5 police interview in which she expressed surprise at her guests’ deaths, professed love for them and said she had cooperated fully with health investigators.
• Detective Sergeant Luke Farrell detailed the Leongatha home search, describing the seizure of a Sunbeam food dehydrator manual, electronic devices and a spattered beef Wellington recipe page from her RecipeTin Eats cookbook.
• In her recorded statements, Patterson denied ever foraging for mushrooms or knowing about a dehydrator and said her beef Wellington combined fresh Woolworths mushrooms with dried ones bought from an Asian grocer.
• Senior health adviser Sally Ann Atkinson, under cross-examination, confirmed that Patterson’s accounts of mushroom sourcing had shifted and that the public health probe deemed the incident isolated with very low risk to the wider supply chain.
• The trial resumes with prosecutors emphasising alleged deliberate poisoning and the defence maintaining the deaths were a tragic accident.