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Speaker 1: It was the gathering that formed the center of this trial,

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Speaker 1: the few hours in a country house that propelled Aaron

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Speaker 1: Patterson to international headlines. Four weeks ago. The only guest

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Speaker 1: to survive the Mushroom lunch took to the stand and

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Speaker 1: described these hours, the discussion at the table, and the

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Speaker 1: beef Wellington dish. But today, in the witness box, it

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Speaker 1: was the accused who gave her version of the lunch,

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Speaker 1: how she prepared the meal and what she said happened after.

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Speaker 1: I'm Brooke Creeper Crane and this is the Mushroom Cook.

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Speaker 1: It's day twenty six of Aaron Patterson's murder trial, and

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Speaker 1: I'm back with court reporter Laura Possella. Hi, Laura.

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Speaker 2: It's been another big day, hasn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it has. So today Aaron took the stand for

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Speaker 1: the third day in a row.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and today was the first day that we heard

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Speaker 2: her speak about the lunch in detail. It was touched

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Speaker 2: upon very briefly yesterday when she was asked a question

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Speaker 2: by her defense barrister Colin Mandy. But we spent hours

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Speaker 2: today unpacking both the events before the lunch, what happened

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Speaker 2: during the lunch, and the days after the lunch. Mister

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Speaker 2: Mandy brought his client through the timeline in chronological order,

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Speaker 2: so we'll do the same today.

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Speaker 1: So let's start with how Aaron said she prepared the lunch.

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Speaker 2: She told the court that she went through a long

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Speaker 2: process when it came to deciding what she wanted to cook.

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Speaker 2: She had previously cooked a shepherd's pie for Don and Gale,

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Speaker 2: but she said that she didn't feel like it was

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Speaker 2: special enough for this lunch. She said that her mother

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Speaker 2: would cook beef Wellington on important occasions when she was younger,

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Speaker 2: so she thought she would give it a crack herself.

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Speaker 2: She had a recipe tin Eats cookbook called Dinner that

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Speaker 2: had a beef Wellington recipe inside it, so she said

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Speaker 2: she used that, but she had to make some deviations.

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Speaker 1: Aaron told the jury that she couldn't find a big

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Speaker 1: meat log that the recipe called for, so she used

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Speaker 1: from the original recipe. Aaron also said that she included

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Speaker 1: The recipe also included a crape player, but Aaron said

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Speaker 2: She began prepping the meal on the Friday, that is,

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Speaker 2: time to google how not to stuff up a beef Wellington.

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Speaker 2: On Saturday morning, she said she woke up early to

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Speaker 2: get started on the mushroom duck cel. The mushroom du

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Speaker 2: cel is the mushroom paste that coats the meat, and

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Speaker 2: that involved her frying garlic and chopping up shalots. She

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Speaker 2: said she added Woolworth's mushrooms into the pan and then

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Speaker 2: she cooked it for a long time. While she was cooking,

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Speaker 2: she said she had a taste and in her opinion,

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Speaker 2: it tasted a little bit bland. So she decided to

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Speaker 2: put in some dried mushrooms that she had purchased from

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Speaker 2: an Asian grosser back in April. Eron told the court

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Speaker 2: that these dried mushrooms were being held in a container,

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Speaker 2: and mister Mandy asked her today whether or not she

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Speaker 2: believed there were any other mushrooms in that container. She

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Speaker 2: She chopped them up, and she sprinkled them over the

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Speaker 2: utensil she called an egg flip. Mister Mandy then asked

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Speaker 2: her more about how she prepared the beef wellington. Here

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Speaker 2: is more of their exchange. These are their words, but

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Speaker 3: Can you talk us through the rest of the process

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Speaker 4: So, after doing what I needed to do with the

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Speaker 4: And I fried off the steaks on each side and

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Speaker 3: Yes? Okay.

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Speaker 4: So after frying off the steaks and letting them rest

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Speaker 3: Lift a little bit of the duck cell.

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Speaker 4: The duck cell that's right, Like you could lift out

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Speaker 1: Mister Mandy then took Aaron to messages sent the day

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Speaker 1: before the lunch where Simon told her he wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: Aaron invited him because she wanted to discuss some medical news.

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Speaker 1: Alistoners have heard the messages before, but here's the exchange

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Speaker 5: Sorry, I feel too uncomfortable about coming to the lunch

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Speaker 5: with you, mom, Dad, Heather, and Millian tomorrow, but I'm

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Speaker 5: happy to talk to you about your health and implications

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Speaker 5: of that at another time. If you'd like to discuss

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Speaker 4: That's really disappointing. I've spent many hours this week preparing

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Speaker 4: lunch for tomorrow, which has been exhausting in light of

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Speaker 4: the issues I'm facing, and spent a small fortune on

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Speaker 4: beef by Philip to make beef Wellington's because I wanted

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Speaker 4: it to be a special meal, as I may not

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Speaker 4: be able to host a lunch like this again for

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Speaker 4: some time. It's important to me that you're all there

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Speaker 4: need to have. I hope you'll change your mind. Your

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Speaker 4: parents and Heather and Ian are coming at twelve thirty.

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Speaker 4: I hope to see you there.

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Speaker 1: Mister Mandy asked Erin why she sent that message to Simon.

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Speaker 1: Here's what she said in court.

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Speaker 4: I was hurt he didn't want to come, but I

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Speaker 4: was also really anxious and stressed about this upcoming procedure

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Speaker 2: Aaron said that apart from the small fortune claim and

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Speaker 2: the rest of the message was exaggerated. Here is more

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Speaker 4: I just really wanted him to come so I could

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Speaker 4: talk about the medical stuff and not worry about it anymore.

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Speaker 4: I didn't mean to do any of that. I shouldn't

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Speaker 3: What did you want him to feel when he read

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Speaker 4: I guess I wanted him to feel a little bit

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Speaker 3: And when you say I've spent many hours this week

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Speaker 4: I didn't do any preparing other than shopping and researching

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Speaker 4: is no, it wasn't true.

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Speaker 1: Mister Mandy then went on to ask questions about the

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Speaker 1: day of the lunch on July twenty nine. Aaron said

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Speaker 1: Aaron told the jury Heather brought a fruit platter and

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Speaker 1: Gale brought an orange cake.

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Speaker 2: She explained that she served five dishes, with the sixth

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Speaker 2: she didn't remember what plate she used, as the jury

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Speaker 2: has previously heard Erin said, the Wilkinsons ate all of

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Speaker 2: a lot. Aaron said she had a health issue she

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Speaker 4: So it was right at the end of the meal,

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Speaker 4: and I mentioned that I'd had a maybe not scare

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Speaker 4: year or two earlier where I thought I had ovarian

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Speaker 4: cancer and had various scans about and related to that.

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Speaker 4: And then I'm not proud of this, but I led

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Speaker 3: And can you remember what you said about that in

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Speaker 4: Not specifically. I do remember I referred to upcoming treatment

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Speaker 4: because primarily in my mind, I was thinking I might

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Speaker 4: Or activities, and I might need to explain why I

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Speaker 4: So that was really the focus of what I was

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Speaker 3: Did you mislead them?

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Speaker 4: I did.

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Speaker 2: Aaron told the court that the upcoming treatment she had

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Speaker 3: And why didn't you tell them the truth about what

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Speaker 4: I was really embarrassed. I was ashamed of the fact

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Speaker 4: I ate. I was ashamed of that and embarrassed. I

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Speaker 1: After the guest had left, Aaron told the jury she

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Speaker 1: In the end, she said she ate two thirds of

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Speaker 1: and overfull and went to the toilet and brought it

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Speaker 1: she had struggled with binge eating and bolimia for most

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Speaker 2: Aaron told the court that she felt better later that afternoon,

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Speaker 2: but started experiencing diarrhea from about ten pm. She didn't

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Speaker 2: making herself a herbal tea. The court heard that she

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Speaker 2: decided they wouldn't be going to church that day, but

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Speaker 2: that afternoon, she said, she decided to still drive her

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Speaker 2: son to his flying lesson in Taiab. She said she

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Speaker 2: still felt nauseous and had diarrhea, but her symptoms weren't

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Speaker 2: as bad as they were night before. Here's what she

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Speaker 2: said today in court about the journey to the flying lesson.

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Speaker 4: So, maybe about half an hour into the trip, I

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Speaker 4: he pulled over on a stretch of the road where

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Speaker 4: there's quite a bit of bush along the way.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember where that was?

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Speaker 4: It's before the South Gibson Highway meets the Bass Highway,

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Speaker 4: somewhere around the Noyora turnoffish somewhere around there.

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Speaker 3: And what happened? You pulled over?

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Speaker 4: Yes, So, and I went off into the bush and

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Speaker 4: went to the toilet.

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Speaker 3: What kind of going into the toilet was it?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 2: I had diarrhea and what happened after that?

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Speaker 4: So I cleaned myself up a little bit with tissues

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Speaker 4: I put the dog Pooh bag with the soiled tissues

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Speaker 1: Aaron said. Her diary continued and that she didn't want

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Speaker 2: She didn't understand how death caps could be in the meal.

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Speaker 1: As the jury has previously heard, Aaron left the hospital

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Speaker 1: Hospital records showed that Erin returned at nine forty eight am.

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Speaker 2: that led to a discussion about mushrooms and her dehydrader.

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Speaker 3: Did you and Simon have any conversation?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So during that conversation with the children about the

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Speaker 3: And what was your response?

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Speaker 3: Did that comment by Simon cause you to reflect on

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Speaker 4: It caused me to do a lot of thinking about

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, can you explain to us what crossed your

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Speaker 4: So it got me thinking about all the times that

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Speaker 3: Had used the dehydrator that's right.

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Speaker 4: And how I had dried foraged mushrooms in a weeks earlier,

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Speaker 4: and I was starting to think, what if they'd gone

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Speaker 3: How did that make you feel scared?

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Speaker 4: Responsible, really worried because child protection were involved, and Simon

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Speaker 1: Let's move on to the next day, August two, Laura,

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Speaker 1: what did Aaron do?

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Speaker 2: By this stage, she's back at her home in Leengatha

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Speaker 2: after being discharged from one as medical center, and she admitted,

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Speaker 3: Why did you do that?

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Speaker 4: Child protection were coming to my house that afternoon, and

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Speaker 3: Did you tell anyone that you had come to the

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Speaker 4: No, I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Did you tell anyone that foraged mushrooms might have been

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Speaker 3: What did that make you think about weather or what

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Speaker 4: Well, I thought there might be evidence of that, evidence

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Speaker 1: Aaron went on to tell the jury that two days later,

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Speaker 2: Erin said she told Miss Cripps that she wanted to

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Speaker 1: Mister Mandy then asked Aaron about the phone she handed

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Speaker 2: Our listeners were probably hoping we would never have to

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Speaker 2: dubbed Phone B. The jury has previously heard that multiple

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Speaker 2: factory resets were conducted on this phone in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: She said this was out of panic, saying that she

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Speaker 1: Phone A was also mentioned today, wasn't it?

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Speaker 2: That's right? So Phone A was the phone that Erin

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Speaker 2: A was sitting on a window sill near a charging station.

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Speaker 2: But she said she put this simcard into the Nokia

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Speaker 1: Thanks Laura, that was a great explanation. As always, Aerin

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