Overview

• Justice Beale lifted the suppression order on pretrial materials, making public unadmitted evidence including allegations of prior poisoning attempts against her husband
• Simon Patterson’s pretrial testimony revealed suspicions of deliberate illness from dishes such as penne bolognese, chicken curry, vegetable wraps and cookies
• Patterson appeared via video link at the Supreme Court of Victoria mention hearing to set dates for her pre-sentence plea hearings
• Sentencing has been set for later in August, with Patterson facing mandatory life sentences for three murders and up to 25 years for attempted murder, and a 28-day appeal window
• Prosecutors relied on phone-tower data, digital logs, a discarded food dehydrator and online search histories to establish intentional foraging and meal preparation of toxic death cap mushrooms