Erin Patterson provides proof at Mushroom Lunch Murder Trial

The Australian woman who is accused of killing three family members and seriously injure another with a toxic mushroom flour, was taken to the witness bank in her process.

Erin Patterterson is not guilty of four charges – three of murder and one of attempted murder – during the Beef Wellington -Lunch in her regional Victorian house in July 2023.

Officers of Justice claim that she deliberately searched and cooked the death fathom chairs before her family members, before lying against the police and throwing away evidence.

The defense case, however, is that Patterson had unintentionally served poison to family members she loved and then “in panic”.

Three people died in the hospital in the days after meals, including the former in -laws of Mrs. Patterterson, Don Patterson, 70, and Gail Patterson, 70, as well as Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, 66.

A single lunch guest – the local pastor Ian Wilkinson – survived after weeks of treatment in the hospital.

For six weeks, the jury has heard in the Victorian Supreme Court of more than 50 witnesses that are called by the persecution, including the alienated husband of Mrs. Patterson, Simon, and the surviving lunch guest, Ian.

It is now the turn of the defense to call witnesses, and first MS Patterterson himself.

The 50 -year -old told the court that by 2023 she had felt a few months that her relationship with the wider family Patterterson – in particular Don and Gail – had developed a little more distance or space.

“We saw each other less,” she says.

“I would worry that Simon didn’t want me to be too involved with the family.”

After detailing a short period of separation between the couple when their first child was a baby, Patterson told the court that she and Simon Patterson had trouble working out their differences of opinion.

“If we had completely problems, it was … we couldn’t communicate well if we didn’t agree,” she said.

“We would just feel hurt and not know how to solve it.”

She also told the court about the traumatic birth of her first child in 2009, less than a year before the first break of the couple.

“He started to go into need and they lost his heartbeat,” she said.

Her voice cheated, she explained that doctors performed a caesarean section to get her son out quickly.

When he was ready to go home, Mrs. Patterson said she fired herself out of the hospital against medical advice because she didn’t want to stay there alone.

The jury has heard that Mrs. Patterson has resigned from the hospital against medical advice in the days after the fatal lunch, who previously pointed out that public prosecutors pointed out that she was not unwell.

Her lawyer Colin Mandy, however, said in his opening address that she had done this several times during her life.

Mrs Patterson gave less than an hour of evidence before the court broke up and will return to resit her testimony on Tuesday.