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Speaker 1: Members of the jury. The twenty ninth of July twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. Lunch was arranged by the accused. Each of

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Speaker 1: the guests were there by her invitation. She alone chose

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Speaker 1: what to cook, obtained the ingredients, and prepared the meal.

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Speaker 2: Today, Nanette Rodgers rose to her feet and started summarizing

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Speaker 2: the prosecution case against alleged mushroom Cook murderer Aaron Pattison.

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Speaker 2: The heart of her argument was what she called Erin's

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Speaker 2: four calculated deceptions. Her summation lasted all day, but we're

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Speaker 2: here to break it all down. I'm Brook Greebert Craig,

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Speaker 2: and this is the Mushroom Cook. It's day thirty two,

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Speaker 2: week eight of Aaron Patterson's murder trial, and I'm here

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Speaker 2: with my colleague, court reporter Laura Plassella. It was a

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Speaker 2: fall and day in court today, wasn't it, Laura, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it really was.

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Speaker 3: We all enjoyed a nice long weekend with the trial

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Speaker 3: not sitting on Friday, but we returned today for a

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Speaker 3: really jam packed day. As you mentioned at the top

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Speaker 3: of the episode, Crown Prosecutor Nannette Rogers today started delivering

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Speaker 3: her closing address. This is really her chance to summarize

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Speaker 3: the prosecution's case, especially considering the jury ended up hearing

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Speaker 3: seven weeks of evidence, so there was a lot Doctor

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Speaker 3: Rogers had to get through today, and she did that

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Speaker 3: by breaking down the evidence into four categories, and she

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Speaker 3: called these Erin's four calculated deceptions. The first, she said,

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Speaker 3: was her fabricated cancer claim that she used as a

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Speaker 3: reason for the lunch. The second was the lethal doses

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Speaker 3: of poison she secreted in the beef wellingtons. The third

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Speaker 3: suffered from deathcap mushroom poisoning, and the fourth was the

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Speaker 3: sustained cover up she embarked on to conceal the truth.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with the first one, the fabricated cancer claim

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Speaker 2: Aaron used as a reason for the lunch. Doctor Rogers

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Speaker 2: said Arin lied about having cancer in order to provide

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Speaker 2: her lunch guests with a reason to attend. Doctor Rogers

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Speaker 2: said it was rare for Aaron to invite people to

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Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers said Erin gave him multiple incentives to attend.

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Speaker 2: Painting the picture of the gathering, which was not only social,

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Speaker 3: Doctor Rogers then took the jury to Ian's evidence, who

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Speaker 3: said that while they were sitting around the table, Aaron

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Speaker 3: told them that she had been diagnosed with cancer, and

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Speaker 3: he rejected the possibility that Erin only told them that

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Speaker 3: she had a possible diagnosis. In his evidence, he actually

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Speaker 3: She said, with Ian's evidence, the jury could completely reject

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Speaker 3: Erin's claim that she never told the guests she had

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Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers said Aaron planted the seed of this light

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Speaker 2: far in advance when she told Donn and Gale before

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Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers said this was all a fabrication, since there

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Speaker 2: was no lump on her elbow. These are doctor Rodgers's

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Speaker 2: words read by our voice actor.

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Speaker 1: These lies were detailed. She was setting up a fiction

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Speaker 1: that she was facing a serious health issue. She knew

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Speaker 3: It was at this point that doctor Rogers referred to

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Speaker 3: the screenshots that were extracted from Aaron's tablet detailing ovarian

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Speaker 3: cancer symptoms. She then reminded the jury of the evidence

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Speaker 3: of intensive care specialist Professor Andrew Burston, who confirmed that

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Speaker 3: Aaron had never received a cancer diagnosis. This is something

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Speaker 3: that Erin has also conceded. This is what doctor Rogers

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Speaker 1: And of course here in court the accused agreed she'd

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Speaker 1: never been diagnosed with cancer. You might be wondering why

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Speaker 1: on earth would she tell such a lie. Execution says

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Speaker 2: Moving on now to the prosecution's second calculated deception. The

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Speaker 2: lethal doses of poison are in secreted in the beef wellingtons.

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Speaker 1: This is the critical deception that the prosecution alleges against her,

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Speaker 1: At the same time, she made sure she would not

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Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers said Erin used a beef Wellington recipe from

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Speaker 3: It was at this point that doctor Rogers then took

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Speaker 3: Erin also had the opportunity to source deathcap mushrooms before

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Speaker 3: evidence of digital forensics expert Dr Matthew Surrell, but he

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Speaker 3: Rogers told the jury that after dehydrating the death caps,

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Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers then moved onto the different colored plates. She

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Speaker 1: He had a clue a memory of exactly what was

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Speaker 3: Doctor Rogers told the jury that Erin deliberately served herself

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Speaker 3: doctor Rogers said that the evidence showed Erin had the

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Speaker 2: Let's move on to the third calculated deception, Aaron's attempts

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Speaker 1: What that evidence shows is that the accused over a

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Speaker 3: Doctor Rogers broke down this deception day by day, and

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Speaker 2: He said that he spoke to Erin when she arrived

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Speaker 1: She fled back to her house try and work out

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Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers told the jury Aaron's story about how much

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Speaker 2: the prosecution's fourth calculated deception, the sustained cover up. Aaron

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Speaker 1: When you examine the evidence of what the accused said

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Speaker 3: As she had all day. Doctor Rogers went on to

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Speaker 1: The accused later told doctor Laura Muldoon that she had

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Speaker 1: Why then, would the accused feed the leftovers of a

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Speaker 1: One would expect a potentially life threatening danger to her

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Speaker 3: Aeron told the jury last week that she scraped off

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Speaker 3: doctor Rogers said today that the scientific evidence strongly suggested

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Speaker 3: Here's what she said.

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Speaker 1: The meat from that dish carried beta ammanitan in it.

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Speaker 2: Let's move on to the second point of the fourth deception,

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Speaker 3: Doctor Rogers did really make a lot of numbered points today,

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Speaker 2: Okay, so that's a lot of suburbs, Laura, so let

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Speaker 3: And Melbourne as well at large, but different combinations. It

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Speaker 1: Even if you could accept it is something you might

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Speaker 2: Then doctor Rogers described how remarkable Erin's memory was last

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Speaker 1: Yet on August thirteenth, twenty twenty three, she could not

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Speaker 3: So doctor Rogers will continue her closing address tomorrow, where

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Speaker 3: Defense barrister Colin Mandy will also deliver a closing address

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Speaker 3: to the jury. Erin is claiming that she may have

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Speaker 2: Thanks Laura. See you tomorrow for another episode, See you,

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