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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 seven, twenty twenty five. Array of light

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Speaker 1: at The Australian dot com dot au. The only survivor

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Speaker 1: of a deadly mushroom lunch has told a jury after

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Speaker 1: eating allegedly poisoned beef Wellington, he led a prayer for

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Speaker 1: his niece, who's charge with three counts of murder and

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Speaker 1: one of attempted murder. Aaron Patterson had told Ian Wilkinson,

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Speaker 1: his wife, Heather, and her parents in law, Don and

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Speaker 1: Gail Patterson, she feared she had ovarian cancer, but the

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Speaker 1: jury has heard that was not true. Today, the first

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Speaker 1: eyewitness account from a lunch that killed three people.

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Speaker 2: Ian Wilkinson is an old man. He came into court

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Speaker 2: wearing a vest and a collared shirt. He had a

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Speaker 2: pin on his lapel which was a fish, the symbol

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Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: That's Ellie Dudley, the Australian's Legal affairs correspondent. She's covering

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Speaker 1: the trial of Aaron Patterson, the Victorian mother of two

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Speaker 1: who's pleaded not guilty to murdering three elderly relatives by

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Speaker 1: poisoning them with deaf cap mushrooms hidden in a beef

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Speaker 1: Wellington and attempt to murder a third. That third guest

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Speaker 1: is Ian Wilkinson, a Baptist pastor and the only surviving

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Speaker 1: guest from that July twenty twenty three mushroom lunch at

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Speaker 1: Aaron Patterson's house in Lee and Gatha in Country Victoria.

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday, Ian Wilkinson stepped into the witness box in

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Speaker 1: the Victorian Supreme Court, sitting at the Latrobe Valley Law

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Speaker 1: Courts in Morewell.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Patterson's been sitting in court every day. She's sitting

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Speaker 2: in a little box with a window in front of

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Speaker 2: her up the back of the court. So there is

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Speaker 2: a moment that my colleague John Ferguson recalled when Anan

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Speaker 2: Wilkinson walked into court, the jury were already in there,

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Speaker 2: and he appeared to hold Aaron Patterson's gaze for a

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Speaker 2: period of time before walking up to the witness box,

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Speaker 2: giving his oath and then beginning to give evidence.

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Speaker 1: Ian Wilkinson, now seventy one, is related to Aaron Patterson

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Speaker 1: by marriage through his late wife, Heather. Ian Wilkinson told

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Speaker 1: the court Heather, who was sixty six in July twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, was working as an English teacher with new migrants.

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Speaker 1: Heather was Aaron Patterson's auntie. She was the younger sister

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Speaker 1: of Erin's mother in law, Gail Patterson. We've used voice

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Speaker 1: actors to bring you the words spoken in court.

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Speaker 3: She was the baby of the family.

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Speaker 2: He laughed quite a bit while he was giving evidence.

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Speaker 2: Something that I said to John Ferguson, the associate editor

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Speaker 2: of The Australian who's covering this trial with me, was

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Speaker 2: that he seems really joyful, which was unexpected to me.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's lost his wife, he's lost his wife's

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Speaker 2: sister and her husband. He's had an astronomical amount of

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Speaker 2: media attention. His whole life has been uprooted, but he

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Speaker 2: appeared to be quite joyful. He's frail to an extent,

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Speaker 2: but perhaps not as frail as you would expect him

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Speaker 2: to be as somebody who spent over a month in

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Speaker 2: hospital after being allegedly poisoned with death cat mushrooms. He

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Speaker 2: just appears to be a gentle old man.

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Speaker 1: Ian Wilkinson and Aaron Patterson had been related for several decades.

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Speaker 1: He remembered on only two previous occasions visiting Aaron at home,

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Speaker 1: but never stepping inside.

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Speaker 3: We were outside the house and in the driveway, I

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Speaker 3: suppose you'd call it, and we spoke there. We spoke

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Speaker 3: to Aaron on the doorstep.

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Speaker 1: Prosecutor Jane Warren's words are read by a voice actor.

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Speaker 1: How would you describe Erin as a person?

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Speaker 3: Well, just seemed like normal person to me. You know.

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Speaker 3: When we met, things were friendly. We never had arguments

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Speaker 3: or disputes or she just seemed like an ordinary person.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how to describe it. Our relationship was friendly, amicable.

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Speaker 3: It didn't have much depth. We were more like acquaintances.

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Speaker 3: We didn't see a great deal of each other.

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Speaker 1: When in July twenty twenty three, Aaron Patterson invited the

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Speaker 1: Wilkinsons and her parents in law, Don and Gale Patterson

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Speaker 1: to lunch at her new home in Land. Gaffer Ian

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Speaker 1: Wilkinson remembered his wife being thrilled.

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Speaker 3: Heather came through. I was still in the main body

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Speaker 3: told me we'd been invited to Aaron's home from a meal.

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Speaker 3: She was fairly excited and she said that good news

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Speaker 3: and I remember talking to Heather wondering why suddenly the invitation.

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Speaker 1: How did you feel about the invitation.

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Speaker 3: We were happy to be invited. Yeah, seemed like maybe

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Speaker 1: When they arrived carrying a fruit platter, Heather Wilkinson was

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Speaker 1: keen to investigate Aaron Patterson's pantry, her husband said. Heather

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Speaker 3: Heather was calling out to me, come and look at

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Speaker 3: the pantry. I'd noticed that Aaron was very reluctant about

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Speaker 3: I thought that maybe the pantry's a mess. It's going

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Speaker 3: embarrassment by joining the pantry. They went to look at

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Speaker 3: the pantry, and Erin followed them in, and they stood

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Speaker 3: in there for some time talking about the pantry. Heather

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Speaker 3: I thought i'd be polite and just stayed where we

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Speaker 3: were standing, talking with Don.

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Speaker 1: He said. As Aaron mashed potatoes and put the food

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Speaker 1: on the plates on the kitchen bench, both Heather and

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Speaker 1: Gale offered to help.

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Speaker 3: The offer was rejected and Aaron plaited. There was mashed potatoes,

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Speaker 3: green beans, and beef Wellington.

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Speaker 1: The beef Wellington. Did you see where that came from

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Speaker 1: before it was plaited?

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Speaker 3: No, I didn't. Each person had an individual serve. It

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Speaker 3: was very much like a pasty if you imagine a

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Speaker 3: pasty being put on a plate. It was a pastry case,

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Speaker 3: and when we cut into it there was steak and mushrooms.

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Speaker 3: There were four large gray dinner plates and one smaller

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Speaker 1: Once the food was plated. How were those plates distributed?

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Speaker 3: Well, the plates were distributed by three different people. Gail

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Speaker 3: picked up two of the gray plates and put them

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Speaker 3: up the odd plate and carried it to the table.

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Speaker 3: She took it to her place at the table.

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Speaker 1: They said grace and it began eating, and Wilkinson said

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Speaker 1: he and Heather both ate their entire meal while Gaiel

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Speaker 1: ate half her beef wellington? Doohn Patterson ate his entire meal?

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Speaker 1: And he also ate the half of the beef wellington

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Speaker 1: that his wife Gail didn't finish. And there was some

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I remember. There was talk about husbands

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Speaker 3: we should have shared a beef wellington because she thought

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Speaker 3: the meal was a bit on the large side for her.

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Speaker 3: So that's the reason I remember who ate what?

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Speaker 1: They shared a cake and some fruit, And that's when,

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Speaker 1: according to Ian Wilkinson, Aaron Patterson revealed she had cancer.

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Speaker 1: He thinks he recalls her saying it was overian cancer.

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Speaker 3: She said that she was very concerned because she believed

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Speaker 3: it was very serious, life threatening. She was anxious about

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Speaker 3: telling the kids, and she was asking our advice about that.

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Speaker 3: I thought this is the reason that we'd been invited

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Speaker 1: The jury has heard in the Crown's opening statement that

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Speaker 1: the prosecution case is that Aaron Patterson used the story

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Speaker 1: children being present. Simon Patterson declined the invitation. Aaron Patterson's

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Speaker 1: defense has conceded she did not have cancer, but reject

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Speaker 1: that case theory. In the witness box, Ian Wilkinson said

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Speaker 1: Aaron Patterson wanted advice on how to speak to the children.

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Speaker 3: Don spoke first and he said he thought it would

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Speaker 3: was a bit of general conversation and that was what

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Speaker 3: we all thought.

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Speaker 1: They stopped the conversation after Aaron's son came home with

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Speaker 1: a friend.

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Speaker 3: I prayed, asking God's blessing on Aaron, that she would

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Speaker 3: get the treatment she needed, that the kids would be okay,

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Speaker 3: that she'd have wisdom in how she told the kids.

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Speaker 3: Then the prayer concluded as the boys arrived in the room.

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Speaker 1: The Wilkinsons left about three pm. After Ian worked on

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Speaker 1: his sermon for the next day, they went to bed

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Speaker 1: around eleven pm.

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Speaker 3: I don't think either of us had fallen asleep, and

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Speaker 3: Heather got up abruptly out of bed and made her

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Speaker 3: It continued right throughout the night. We had vomiting and diarrhea.

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Speaker 3: That that continued right through the night.

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Speaker 1: Ian Wilkinson told the jury they spent the night camped

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Speaker 3: He was quite concerned about us. He asked us to

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Speaker 3: call an ambulance. Heather and I said, ah, this is

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Speaker 3: I recall in the lean Gaffa Hospital, Heather reminding me

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Speaker 3: said there were different colored plates. Wondering why we were ill,

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Speaker 3: She just noticed the difference in the colours between the

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Speaker 1: The doctor on duty, Chris Webster, thought it was food poisoning.

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Speaker 3: My memory was that suspicion was falling on the meat.

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Speaker 1: Exhausted, the pair spent the night in adjoining hospital beds.

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Speaker 3: We were abruptly woken up by a group of nurses

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Speaker 3: to the urgent care area. Chris Webster was waiting in

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Speaker 3: the urgent care area. He said that he had a

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Speaker 3: communication from the Daninong Hospital indicating suspected mushroom poisoning. He

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Speaker 3: was very frank. He said it's an extremely serious situation.

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Speaker 3: He said there is a time critical treatment available and

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Speaker 3: he was very concerned that we'd be transported quickly to Daninong.

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Speaker 1: They were sedated, intubated and taken to the Austin Hospital

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Speaker 1: in Melbourne to be treated for amanita poisoning death cap mushrooms.

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Speaker 1: After a fortnight in hospital, Ian Wilkinson was dis charged

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Speaker 1: to rehab, where he spent several weeks. By the time

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Speaker 1: he returned home, his wife was dead, along with Dawn

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Speaker 1: and Gale Patterson coming up what Aaron Patterson's defense barrister

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Speaker 1: asked Ian Wilkinson in cross examination. In cross examination, Aaron

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Speaker 1: Patterson's barrister, Colin Mandy s C probed numerous parts of

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Speaker 1: Ian Wilkins's evidence. Aaron Patterson's defense, outlined by Mandy in

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Speaker 1: his opening address to the jury, is that the fatal

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Speaker 1: lunch was a tragedy and a terrible accident. Colin Mandy

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Speaker 1: wanted to know if Aaron Patterson came to Ian Wilkinson's

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Speaker 1: church services more frequently than he had previously indicated. Wilkinson

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Speaker 1: said yes, sometimes she came fortnightly instead of monthly. Mandy

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Speaker 1: asked Wilkinson to agree that sometimes his wife, Heather would

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Speaker 3: She did drop around some food.

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Speaker 1: Mandy wanted to know if Aaron had been helpful with

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Speaker 1: live streaming Ian's church services during COVID. He agreed. Mandy

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Speaker 1: Wilkinson said only that Aaron had described suspected cancer, that

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Speaker 1: she wasn't definitive about having had a diagnosis. Mandy probed

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Speaker 3: I think she was saying she had cancer because she

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Speaker 3: a tune. I believe that she was saying she had cancer.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't an impression. She plainly said that she had

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Speaker 3: some sort of cancer. Her voice was low at that point.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't exactly catch what sort of cancer she was naming,

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