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Speaker 1: Before we begin, a quick note. We've used voice actors

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Speaker 1: throughout this episode to bring you the words spoken in court.

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Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.

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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, May twenty eight, twenty twenty five. Gas is

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Speaker 1: be Queen Ingrid. You can read our colleague Richard Ferguson's

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Speaker 1: hilarious take on that story right now at The Australian

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Speaker 1: dot com dot au. Aaron Patterson told police she'd never

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Speaker 1: foraged for mushrooms and didn't own a dehydrator, even after

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Speaker 1: police had seized CCTV showing Patterson dumping a dehydrator at

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Speaker 1: a tip. Today, we're bringing you Aaron Patterson's police interview

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Speaker 1: recreated by voice actors after it was played at the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court trial where she's pleaded not guilty to murder.

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Speaker 2: My name's Luke Farrell, detective sergeant. The reason we hear

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Speaker 2: today is to execute a search warrant, sure, and it's

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Speaker 2: in connection with the death of two people over the

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Speaker 2: last couple of days.

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Speaker 3: Hey died.

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Speaker 1: That's the opening moment of a day that's become very

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Speaker 1: important in the trial of Aaron Patterson, the Victorian mother

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Speaker 1: of two who's accused of murdering three elderly relatives and

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Speaker 1: attempting to murder a fourth. She has pleaded not guilty

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Speaker 1: at eleven forty am. On August five, twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: four police officers showed up at Patterson's home on the

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Speaker 1: outskirts of Lea and Gaffer, a small community in Victoria's Gippsland.

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Speaker 1: Homicide Detective Luke Farrell took the lead, and after that

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Speaker 1: exchange on the doorstep, the officers spent four hours combing

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Speaker 1: through the house. On Tuesday, Prosecutor Jane Warren took Detective

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Speaker 1: Sergeant Farrell through photos taken on the day and.

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Speaker 4: On the bench there, what do we see that.

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Speaker 2: Is a cookbook recipe Team Eats Dinner cookbook.

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Speaker 4: Did you open the book and look inside the book

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Speaker 4: at the time of locating this, Yes, I did, okay,

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Speaker 4: And did you locate a recipe of relevance to your inquiries?

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Speaker 2: Yes, So it wasn't a bookmark page, but on a

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Speaker 2: separate page there was a beef Wellington recipe. Yes, and

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Speaker 2: that page was spatted with cooking liquids.

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Speaker 1: The cops went through the house, seizing electronic devices and

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Speaker 1: other items, and then they took Erin Patterson to one

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Speaker 1: Thaggy Police station to answer some questions. Today, we're going

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Speaker 1: to voice act for you that interview, which was recorded

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Speaker 1: on video and played to the jury on Tuesday. The

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Speaker 1: interviewing officer was Detective Leading Senior Constable Stephen Eppingstall of

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Speaker 1: Victoria Police's Homicide Squad. He's the lead investigator in this matter.

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Speaker 1: Eppingstall told the court one of his first actions in

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Speaker 1: the case on August four, five days after the lunch,

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Speaker 1: was to ask a tactical intelligence officer, Detective Senior Constable

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Speaker 1: Meg Crawford, to begin looking through Aaron Patterson's records, including

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Speaker 1: bank details. Crawford found a transaction from two days earlier

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Speaker 1: August iiO made by Aaron Patterson at the Kunwara Transfers station.

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Speaker 1: The local tip police obtained CCTV of Patterson at the

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Speaker 1: tip and visited to recover the item she deposited, a

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Speaker 1: black Sunbeam food dehydrator. After searching Patterson's home, Eppingstall was

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Speaker 1: ready to ask his questions.

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Speaker 5: This is a DVD recorded interview between Detective Leading Senior

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Speaker 5: Constable Stephen Eppingstall and Aaron Patterson of Leon Gatha, conducted

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Speaker 5: at the one Thaggy Police Station on Saturday, the fifth

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Speaker 5: of August twenty twenty three. The other person present is

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Speaker 5: my cooperator, Detective Senior Constable David Martin. Eron. Do you

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Speaker 5: agree The time is now four forty one by my watch? Yep.

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Speaker 5: Could you please state your full name and address.

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Speaker 3: For me, Aaron, Trudy Patterson, Lee and Gatha.

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Speaker 5: Now, as we discussed earlier, and we've been together for

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Speaker 5: we came to your house today. We want to discuss

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Speaker 5: the deaths of Heather Wilkinson and Gal Patterson today with you.

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Speaker 5: When we were at the house earlier, we discussed that

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Speaker 5: you hadn't really been kept in the loop, and it

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Speaker 5: come as news to you that Heather and Gaiale had

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Speaker 5: both passed away. Following eating at your house. Donald, Ian, Gale,

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Speaker 5: ill that their livers have failed. All right, Donald underwent

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Speaker 5: a transplant last night, okay, and his condition is still

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Speaker 5: current prognosis in relation to where he's at. We're trying

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: On the other hand, conversely, we're trying to understand why

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Speaker 3: Yeap, I do. But I'm sure you understand too that

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Speaker 3: I've never been in a situation like this, and I've

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Speaker 3: what happened. So I've given them as much information as

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Speaker 5: And I must say, for the record again you were

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Speaker 5: a couple of things for us that will help us

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Speaker 5: with our investigation, mainly the fruit platter that you said

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Speaker 5: how they bought for you, and the gravy and the

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Speaker 5: night and you kept on advice from the Health Department,

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Speaker 5: so thank you for that. You also pointed out a

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Speaker 5: page two hundred and fifty odd the recipe for beef Wellington,

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Speaker 5: and you indicated that was the recipe you'd cooked. We

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Speaker 5: didn't see a lot of food Fromation Grossers or Indian

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Speaker 3: Did you look in my fridge. I've got a lot

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Speaker 5: I did to find more of that kind of stuff

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Speaker 3: Because I did a big clean out of the pantry,

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Speaker 5: Obviously, we've got concerns in relation to the mushrooms and

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Speaker 5: where they've come from. Is that something you've done in

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Speaker 3: Never, never, never, do.

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Speaker 5: You preserve foods or anything like that. No, have you

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Speaker 1: Coming up more of Aaron Patterson's police interview. That's after

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Speaker 5: You've described the relationship with your ex partner, Simon. I'd

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Speaker 3: And aunt over for lunch because I've no other family

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Speaker 3: and they've always been really good to me, and I

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Speaker 3: what's happened with Simon. I love them a lot. They've

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Speaker 3: I really appreciated that. Because my parents are both gone,

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Speaker 3: my grandparents are all gone. They're the only family that

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Speaker 3: and that's really important to me. I think Simon hated

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Speaker 3: I love them. Nothing that's ever happened between us, nothing

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Speaker 3: they are good, decent people that have never done anything

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Speaker 5: Ever, so we've been told that. On the thirty first

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Speaker 5: of July, So two days after the lunch you went

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Speaker 5: to the Lambgatha Hospital. I think you were only there

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because I just went there thinking I needed a

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Speaker 3: couple of bags of saline because I was really dehydrated.

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Speaker 3: And they said they want to admit me and send

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Speaker 3: me to Melbourne. And when you've got animals at home

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Speaker 3: And I did that and I went back.

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Speaker 5: Who did you speak to?

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Speaker 3: So I walked in and there was like, I don't

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Speaker 3: like to help a person in the triage room, right,

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Speaker 3: And she says, like, are you okay? And I said said, well, no,

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Speaker 3: name and I said Erin and he said, oh, we've

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Speaker 3: been expecting you because other people that you ate with

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Speaker 3: I can't remember the exact words, but he said something

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Speaker 3: eaten death cap mushrooms and I said what and he said, yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's what we think they've eaten, and then started asking

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Speaker 5: All right, I understand you went down at the hospital

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Speaker 5: and got treatment of that. What kind of treatment did

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Speaker 3: Oh, they hooked me up to a drip. They said

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Speaker 3: to me, because the concern is that everybody's eaten something

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Speaker 3: So I got saline and other stuff. How long are

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Speaker 5: And again full disclosure, so you understand, we've obtained warrants

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Speaker 5: to medical records for everyone involved in this, so we'll

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Speaker 5: get medical records in relation to new treatment there as well.

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Speaker 5: Sure you were at home in person when we did

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Speaker 5: a search warrant today, right, And like I said, we'll

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Speaker 5: give you a little copy of this everything we've seized.

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Speaker 5: Kitchen fire left bottom drawer instruction manual for a Sunbeam

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Speaker 5: Food Lab. Electronic dehydrator. What's that in relation to you

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Speaker 5: know anything about a dehydrator in your house? No, do

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Speaker 3: Oh, I've got manuals of lots of stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: Over the years, I've had all sorts of appliances and

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Speaker 3: I just keep them all.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, when did you own a dehydrator?

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Speaker 3: About eight or nine years ago?

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Speaker 5: Okay, what did you use that for?

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Speaker 3: Like when I first got the Thermomix, I got really

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Speaker 3: we'll have something like that.

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Speaker 5: Okay, kitchen bench located against the wall. Recipe Tineat's book.

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Speaker 3: That's that recipe book.

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Speaker 5: That's the same book that the Wellington recipe comes out of.

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Speaker 5: M well I think of it. One other thing that

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Speaker 5: I should mention again to your credit. Police went around

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Speaker 5: they were obviously responding to the hospital call to check

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Speaker 5: some leftovers. What were those leftovers that you directed them to?

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Speaker 3: Uneeded food from the lunch.

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Speaker 5: So you helped them getting that so it would be sampled.

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Speaker 3: Because my kids ate them too, So there was stuff

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Speaker 3: And so when I went to the hospital and they

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Speaker 3: I said, well, there's the leftovers in the bin. You

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Speaker 3: I said I'll go and get it if you want.

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Speaker 3: And they said that's fine, you need to go on

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Speaker 3: a drip. We'll call the police. And I said, well,

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Speaker 3: that's fine, just let them know I need to give

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Speaker 5: Yep, so again thank you for helping us locate that.

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Speaker 5: All right, erin do you agree? The time is now

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Speaker 5: five point thirty pm by my watch? All right, I'm

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Speaker 5: going to suspend the interview.

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Speaker 1: Now, the video stopped and Justice Christopher Biale told the

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Speaker 1: jury that irrelevant material had been edited out of the video.

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Speaker 1: Prosecutor Jane Warren confirmed with Stephen Eppingstall that Don Patterson

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Speaker 1: died later that night. A few weeks later, Ian Wilkinson

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Speaker 4: As a result of those inquiries, was the accused arrested

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Speaker 4: by police on the second of November twenty twenty three

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Speaker 4: and formally charged.

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Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Patterson has consistently denied deliberately poisoning anyone and has

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Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty to all charges. The trial continues on Wednesday.

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