
Joseph Dunstan
Journalist at ABC News (Australia)
Journalist at @abcmelbourne via couple of years in the Pilbara and regional Vic. You can email me [email protected]
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6 days ago |
abc.net.au | Kristian Silva |Tim Callanan |Joseph Dunstan |Mikaela Ortolan
Erin's son is now talking about the day of the lunch. He says his friend stayed at his house on the Friday night before the lunch. He says Erin told him about the lunch on the Saturday morning. He tells the officer interviewing him that he and his sister and a friend went to see a movie in Leongatha on the day of the lunch. All three were then picked up from the cinema by his father and driven back to Erin's house. He says he said hello to the lunch guests.
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6 days ago |
abc.net.au | Kristian Silva |Tim Callanan |Joseph Dunstan |Mikaela Ortolan
He is asked about his parents' relationship and says when he was about seven years of age they "had a few arguments" and his mother moved house but they were never divorced. He says neither his mother nor his father had another relationship. He explains he goes to stay with his father over weekends and he drops them off at school on Monday morning. Erin's son says his mother used to come to his father's house on Friday nights and they would all have dinner together.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Kristian Silva |Tim Callanan |Joseph Dunstan |Mikaela Ortolan
1.The Leongatha hospital had run out of the medication used to counteract death cap mushroom toxin by the time Erin arrived, having used up all of its supplies to treat Ian and Heather Wilkinson. 2.A police officer said Erin was "quite cooperative" as she gave him information over the phone to help him find beef Wellington leftovers in a bin at her home.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Kristian Silva |Joseph Dunstan |Tim Callanan |Melissa Brown
Hello from inside Courtroom 4 for another day of the Erin Patterson trial. The Patterson/Wilkinson families have turned up in force today, occupying an entire row of seats on one side of the courtroom. Ian Wilkinson has returned to watch proceedings. The jury has been brought in, and per the court etiquette, Erin Patterson stands in the court dock as they enter. Today she's wearing a pink linen shirt.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Tim Callanan |Judd Boaz |Joseph Dunstan |Kristian Silva
Skip to timelineErin Patterson's triple-murder trial is continuing at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts in Morwell, in Victoria's Gippsland region. Ms Patterson is accused of murdering three relatives by serving them a beef Wellington laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms. Follow the trial in our live blog:The only guest who survived the lunch at Erin Patterson's house, Ian Wilkinson, is expected to give evidence at her trial today.
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