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2 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Mikaela Ortolan |Joseph Dunstan
On Thursday, crown prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC launched her cross-examination of Erin Patterson, who is accused of murdering three of her relatives after they ate a beef Wellington she prepared and served. During her questioning, Dr Rogers put several propositions to Ms Patterson, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder and maintains the deaths were a tragic accident. Here are some of those accusations and how Ms Patterson responded.
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3 days ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Mikaela Ortolan |Joseph Dunstan
By Mikaela Ortolan and Joseph DunstanAccused triple-murderer Erin Patterson has given her account of how she made a beef Wellington dish that resulted in the deaths of three relatives and made another seriously ill. Patterson, 50, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of her parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson. Heather's husband, Ian Wilkinson, was the sole surviving guest of the lunch.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Joseph Dunstan |Mikaela Ortolan |Melissa Brown
Erin Patterson has been charged with three counts of murder after she served beef Wellingtons containing death cap mushrooms to her in-laws Don and Gail Patterson along with Ian and Heather Wilkinson. Ms Patterson has pleaded not guilty, saying their deaths were a tragic accident. Follow the trial in our live blog.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicole Asher |Mikaela Ortolan
The Victorian government will inject more funding into the state's troubled healthcare system in a bid to make it cheaper and more accessible. With the 2025 state budget due to be handed down later today, the government has announced a $634.3 million package to open nine new or expanded hospitals. These include the Footscray Hospital, Frankston Hospital and Maryborough and District Hospital.
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4 weeks 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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4 weeks 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 month 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 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Joseph Dunstan |Richard Willingham |Mikaela Ortolan
Senior Liberal figures say the party must review the way it ran its election campaign after it was reduced to just a small handful of seats across the Melbourne region. In a result that delivered a stunning majority win to Labor, the Liberals failed to make inroads in outer-suburban parts of Melbourne despite extensive campaigning on cost-of-living anger.
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1 month ago | 
radionz.co.nz | Mikaela Ortolan |Tim Callanan |Kristian Silva
By Mikaela Ortolan, Tim Callanan and Kristian Silva for ABCA defence lawyer representing accused triple-murderer Erin Patterson has told a jury she lied about a cancer diagnosis and foraging mushrooms, but is innocent of murdering three relatives with a poisoned meal. Patterson is on trial facing three murder charges and an attempted murder charge relating to a deadly beef Wellington meal she prepared and served relatives in July 2023.
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1 month ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Mikaela Ortolan |Tim Callanan |Kristian Silva
By Mikaela Ortolan, Tim Callanan and Kristian Silva for ABCA defence lawyer representing accused triple-murderer Erin Patterson has told a jury she lied about a cancer diagnosis and foraging mushrooms, but is innocent of murdering three relatives with a poisoned meal. Patterson is on trial facing three murder charges and an attempted murder charge relating to a deadly beef Wellington meal she prepared and served relatives in July 2023.
