Kristian Silva
Court Reporter at ABC Melbourne
Court reporter @abcnews @abcmelbourne | Host of the ABC's true crime podcast, Mushroom Case Daily | [email protected]
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4 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Kristian Silva
"Erin Patterson lied to the police, but she's no murderer."In a nutshell, that's what her defence case is. Evidence of Ms Patterson's lies to homicide detectives was shown to the Supreme Court of Victoria this week, as 21 minutes of her police interview was played to the jury. A week after hosting the fatal beef Wellington lunch on July 29, 2023, Ms Patterson was inside a police station.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Kristian Silva
Erin Trudi Patterson is the central figure in Australia's most talked-about court case. A group of people who have never met her before will soon decide her fate. For four weeks, the jury has seen her sitting in the court dock. What have they learned about the woman on trial? Ms Patterson is 50 years old. She is from Korumburra, a town in the broader Gippsland region that the jury members live in. She is a mother-of-two who has worked as an accountant and an air traffic controller.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Kristian Silva
A doctor has detailed the final moments of three lunch guests who died from death cap mushroom poisoning after attending a lunch at Erin Patterson's house. Intensive care specialist Stephen Warrillow was called to the stand on Friday in Ms Patterson's triple-murder trial in the Supreme Court in Morwell.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Kristian Silva |Melissa Brown
Yesterday the court heard from digital forensic expert Shamen Fox-Henry. Messages from a group chat were read aloud to the court in which Erin Patterson described her estranged husband Simon Patterson as a "deadbeat" and said her extended family was "a lost cause" and she wanted "nothing to do with them". Some of the messages regarded Simon wanting her to withdraw her claim for child support.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Kristian Silva
Erin Patterson described her extended family as "a lost cause" and said she wanted "nothing to do with them", according to online messages allegedly sent seven months before the fatal lunch at her home. Facebook messages between Ms Patterson and a group of online friends were shown to her triple-murder trial in the Supreme Court in Morwell on Thursday. The trial of Erin Patterson, who stands accused of using a poisoned meal to murder three relatives, continues.
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