Speaker 1: Members of the jury. The twenty ninth of July twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. Lunch was arranged by the accused. Each of
Speaker 1: the guests were there by her invitation. She alone chose
Speaker 1: what to cook, obtained the ingredients, and prepared the meal.
Speaker 2: Today, Nanette Rodgers rose to her feet and started summarizing
Speaker 2: the prosecution case against alleged mushroom Cook murderer Aaron Pattison.
Speaker 2: The heart of her argument was what she called Erin's
Speaker 2: four calculated deceptions. Her summation lasted all day, but we're
Speaker 2: here to break it all down. I'm Brook Greebert Craig,
Speaker 2: and this is the Mushroom Cook. It's day thirty two,
Speaker 2: week eight of Aaron Patterson's murder trial, and I'm here
Speaker 2: with my colleague, court reporter Laura Plassella. It was a
Speaker 2: fall and day in court today, wasn't it, Laura, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it really was.
Speaker 3: We all enjoyed a nice long weekend with the trial
Speaker 3: not sitting on Friday, but we returned today for a
Speaker 3: really jam packed day. As you mentioned at the top
Speaker 3: of the episode, Crown Prosecutor Nannette Rogers today started delivering
Speaker 3: her closing address. This is really her chance to summarize
Speaker 3: the prosecution's case, especially considering the jury ended up hearing
Speaker 3: seven weeks of evidence, so there was a lot Doctor
Speaker 3: Rogers had to get through today, and she did that
Speaker 3: by breaking down the evidence into four categories, and she
Speaker 3: called these Erin's four calculated deceptions. The first, she said,
Speaker 3: was her fabricated cancer claim that she used as a
Speaker 3: reason for the lunch. The second was the lethal doses
Speaker 3: of poison she secreted in the beef wellingtons. The third
Speaker 3: was her attempts to make it seem like she also
Speaker 3: suffered from deathcap mushroom poisoning, and the fourth was the
Speaker 3: sustained cover up she embarked on to conceal the truth.
Speaker 2: Let's start with the first one, the fabricated cancer claim
Speaker 2: Aaron used as a reason for the lunch. Doctor Rogers
Speaker 2: said Arin lied about having cancer in order to provide
Speaker 2: her lunch guests with a reason to attend. Doctor Rogers
Speaker 2: said it was rare for Aaron to invite people to
Speaker 2: her home, in particular when inviting her estranged husband, Simon Patterson.
Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers said Erin gave him multiple incentives to attend.
Speaker 2: Painting the picture of the gathering, which was not only social,
Speaker 2: but was also about important family business.
Speaker 3: Doctor Rogers then took the jury to Ian's evidence, who
Speaker 3: said that while they were sitting around the table, Aaron
Speaker 3: told them that she had been diagnosed with cancer, and
Speaker 3: he rejected the possibility that Erin only told them that
Speaker 3: she had a possible diagnosis. In his evidence, he actually
Speaker 3: said that Erin discussed with them the possibility of chemotherapy.
Speaker 3: She said, with Ian's evidence, the jury could completely reject
Speaker 3: Erin's claim that she never told the guests she had
Speaker 3: a cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers said Aaron planted the seed of this light
Speaker 2: far in advance when she told Donn and Gale before
Speaker 2: the lunch she was having medical tests on her elbow.
Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers said this was all a fabrication, since there
Speaker 2: was no lump on her elbow. These are doctor Rodgers's
Speaker 2: words read by our voice actor.
Speaker 1: These lies were detailed. She was setting up a fiction
Speaker 1: that she was facing a serious health issue. She knew
Speaker 1: how to tell convincing lies when it came to the
Speaker 1: cancer because she had put in the research.
Speaker 3: It was at this point that doctor Rogers referred to
Speaker 3: the screenshots that were extracted from Aaron's tablet detailing ovarian
Speaker 3: cancer symptoms. She then reminded the jury of the evidence
Speaker 3: of intensive care specialist Professor Andrew Burston, who confirmed that
Speaker 3: Aaron had never received a cancer diagnosis. This is something
Speaker 3: that Erin has also conceded. This is what doctor Rogers
Speaker 3: said today.
Speaker 1: And of course here in court the accused agreed she'd
Speaker 1: never been diagnosed with cancer. You might be wondering why
Speaker 1: on earth would she tell such a lie. Execution says
Speaker 1: that the accused never thought she would have to account
Speaker 1: for this lie. She did not think her lunch guests
Speaker 1: would live to reveal it. Her lie would die with them.
Speaker 2: Moving on now to the prosecution's second calculated deception. The
Speaker 2: lethal doses of poison are in secreted in the beef wellingtons.
Speaker 1: This is the critical deception that the prosecution alleges against her,
Speaker 1: that she deliberately sought out and located death cap mushrooms
Speaker 1: and then secreted lethal doses of those deadly mushrooms into
Speaker 1: the individual beef wellingtons she had made for the lunch guests.
Speaker 1: At the same time, she made sure she would not
Speaker 1: suffer the same fate as her lunch guests by making
Speaker 1: herself an individual beef Wellington that did not contain any
Speaker 1: death cap mushrooms. The sinister deception was to use a
Speaker 1: nourishing meal as the vehicle to deliver a deadly poison.
Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers said Erin used a beef Wellington recipe from
Speaker 2: a recipe Tin EAT's cookbook that did not call for
Speaker 2: individual beef Wellington's. She said she deviated from the recipe
Speaker 2: to enable her to control what ingredients went into what serve.
Speaker 2: Doctor Rodgers said it was the only way that Aaron
Speaker 2: could ensure that she would not accidentally consume any death
Speaker 2: cap mushrooms.
Speaker 3: It was at this point that doctor Rogers then took
Speaker 3: the jury to the source of the death cap mushrooms.
Speaker 3: She conceded that the prosecution had no direct evidence of
Speaker 3: where they came from, but she reminded them that Erin
Speaker 3: was aware of citizen science website I Naturalist that could
Speaker 3: be used to track down the toxic fungi. She told
Speaker 3: the jury that Erin had this knowledge because her computer
Speaker 3: records showed that in May twenty twenty two, a year
Speaker 3: before the lunch, someone in her house had searched for
Speaker 3: iron naturalists on this device. Erin told the jury last
Speaker 3: week that while she didn't remember making this search, it
Speaker 3: was very possible that it could have been her. Dr
Speaker 3: Rogers went on to say that beyond knowing about this website,
Speaker 3: Erin also had the opportunity to source deathcap mushrooms before
Speaker 3: the lunch because two sightings were logged on the website
Speaker 3: in Lock and Outram on April eighteen and May twenty one.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, we won't comb back through the
Speaker 3: evidence of digital forensics expert Dr Matthew Surrell, but he
Speaker 3: said that Aaron's phone records showed a possible visit to
Speaker 3: Locke on April twenty eight and possible visits to Lock
Speaker 3: and Outram on May twenty two, when Aerin did not
Speaker 3: usually visit these areas. From here, Doctor Rogers laid out
Speaker 3: a timeline for the jury. She said that the prosecution
Speaker 3: alleges that after finding death caps in lock on April
Speaker 3: twenty eight, Aaron traveled back to Lengatha to buy a dehydrator.
Speaker 3: She said she made this purchase for the purpose of
Speaker 3: dehydrating the death caps she had found. The jury were
Speaker 3: taken back to the photos of mushrooms on a de
Speaker 3: hydrated tray in Aaron's kitchen. One set of photos showed
Speaker 3: regular button mushrooms, while another set of photos showed yellow
Speaker 3: tinged mushrooms. Doctor Rogers explained that it was the prosecution
Speaker 3: case that Aaron was doing a test run with the
Speaker 3: button mushrooms to make sure that she wouldn't waste the
Speaker 3: death caps. She also wanted to dehydrate and preserve. Doctor
Speaker 3: Rogers told the jury that after dehydrating the death caps,
Speaker 3: Aaron later returned to lock An Outram on May twenty
Speaker 3: two looking for more. She then said it was open
Speaker 3: for the jury to infer that at some stage after
Speaker 3: she blitz the death caps into a powder to be
Speaker 3: able to hide them in the beef Wellington meal.
Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers then moved onto the different colored plates. She
Speaker 2: told the jury that Ian was a compelling witness who
Speaker 2: gave clear evidence that Aaron served her full guests on
Speaker 2: one type of plate and herself on another. Here's what
Speaker 2: doctor Rogers said today.
Speaker 1: He had a clue a memory of exactly what was
Speaker 1: served at the lunch. The individual wholly encased pasty type
Speaker 1: beef Wellington, mashed potato and green beans. You will have
Speaker 1: no trouble in being satisfied that he is a reliable witness,
Speaker 1: and you can confidently accept what he told you about
Speaker 1: the details of the lunch, including the four gray plates
Speaker 1: and the fifth odd plate.
Speaker 3: Doctor Rogers told the jury that Erin deliberately served herself
Speaker 3: on a different plate to the others in order to
Speaker 3: identify which of the meals was not poisoned. She said
Speaker 3: the only reason she would do this was because she
Speaker 3: knew there were poisonous mushrooms in the meals, because she
Speaker 3: had put them there. To summarize the second calculated deception,
Speaker 3: doctor Rogers said that the evidence showed Erin had the
Speaker 3: knowledge to locate deathcat mushrooms, the opportunity to source them
Speaker 3: at a time proximate to the lunch, the knowledge, skill
Speaker 3: and equipment to dehydrate them and then blo them into
Speaker 3: a powder, and complete control over the ingredients of the
Speaker 3: meal to make sure she did not accidentally consume death
Speaker 3: cap mushrooms.
Speaker 2: Let's move on to the third calculated deception, Aaron's attempts
Speaker 2: to make it seem like she also suffered death cap
Speaker 2: mushroom poisoning. Doctor Rogers said Erin did this to disguise
Speaker 2: her crimes.
Speaker 1: What that evidence shows is that the accused over a
Speaker 1: number of days deliberately and falsely represented to family members
Speaker 1: and medical personnel, both by her words and actions, that
Speaker 1: she was very unwell as a result of the lunch.
Speaker 1: Of course, the only reason she would do something like
Speaker 1: that pretend to be suffering from the same illness as
Speaker 1: the others, is because she knew she hadn't been poisoned.
Speaker 1: She knew she was not going to exhibit symptoms of poisoning,
Speaker 1: and she knew how suspicious this would look to everyone.
Speaker 1: Her good health, in other words, would give her away
Speaker 1: about what she had done, so she had to try
Speaker 1: and look unwell like the others.
Speaker 3: Doctor Rogers broke down this deception day by day, and
Speaker 3: first focused on the night of the lunch on July
Speaker 3: twenty nine. Aaron told the doctor that on that night
Speaker 3: she was experiencing explosive diarrhea every ten minutes. But doctor
Speaker 3: Rogers told the jury today that Erin still drove her
Speaker 3: son's friend home that very same evening. She told the court,
Speaker 3: you might think a person who genuinely fears pooing her pants,
Speaker 3: potentially in front of her son and his friend, would
Speaker 3: not have taken such a risk. Doctor Rogers then moved
Speaker 3: on to the next day, July thirty, which was an
Speaker 3: Erin drove her son to his flying lesson in Tyab.
Speaker 3: Aaron told the jury last week that on their way
Speaker 3: to Tyab, she had to pull over because she needed
Speaker 3: to go to the toilet, and ended up going to
Speaker 3: the toilet in a bush. She said she cleaned herself
Speaker 3: up with some tissues that she placed in a dog
Speaker 3: pooh bag. However, Erin's son told an investigtion that he
Speaker 3: did not remember them making any stops on their way
Speaker 3: to tie up. The jury has previously heard that they
Speaker 3: stopped at a BP service station, and CCTV shows Aerin
Speaker 3: entering the toilet in the store before exiting nine seconds later.
Speaker 3: But doctor Rogers told the jury today that it would
Speaker 3: take more than nine seconds for Aaron to clean herself
Speaker 3: up or at a minimum, wash her hands after going
Speaker 3: to the toilet on the side of the road. She
Speaker 3: said it was very unlikely that Aaron would have chosen
Speaker 3: to take a two hour round car trip for an
Speaker 3: entirely optional activity on a day she claims to have
Speaker 3: been suffering diarrhea, she said the prosecution case where she
Speaker 3: did not have diarrhea at all on that day.
Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers then moved on to July thirty one and
Speaker 2: the evidence that doctor Chris Webster gave to the jury.
Speaker 2: He said that he spoke to Erin when she arrived
Speaker 2: at lean Gatha Hospital and informed her that she had
Speaker 2: potentially been exposed to death caps. Doctor Rogers told the
Speaker 2: jury this was the momen that Aaron realized what she
Speaker 2: had done had not gone undetected. She said her reaction
Speaker 2: was that she wanted to leave the hospital and did
Speaker 2: so after five minutes.
Speaker 1: She fled back to her house try and work out
Speaker 1: how she was going to manage the situation and how
Speaker 1: she might explain why she wasn't sick like the lunch guests.
Speaker 1: Of course, she could only have felt comfortable walking out
Speaker 1: of the hospital not receiving any of the life saving
Speaker 1: treatment that doctors were telling her was necessary and time critical,
Speaker 1: because she knew very well that she had not eaten
Speaker 1: death cap mushrooms.
Speaker 3: Erin was then transferred from lean Gatha Hospital to Monash
Speaker 3: Medical Center, where she stayed overnight. The next day, on
Speaker 3: August one, Erin told doctor Laura Muldoon that she was
Speaker 3: feeling okay, and doctor Muldoon told the jury in her
Speaker 3: evidence that Erin was displaying no signs of death cap
Speaker 3: mushroom poisoning. Doctor Rogers said in total, Aaron spent just
Speaker 3: over twenty four hours in hospital receiving treatment, but not
Speaker 3: one medical professional observed her appearing unwell. It was at
Speaker 3: this point that doctor Rogers compared aaron symptoms to those
Speaker 3: of the lunch guests. She said that by August one,
Speaker 3: all four lunch guests had been conveyed to the Austin
Speaker 3: Hospital and were in the ICU on life support in
Speaker 3: an advanced state of multiple organ failure, meaning their organs
Speaker 3: were essentially shutting down. But she reiterated that this was
Speaker 3: the same day that Erin was allowed to go home.
Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers told the jury Aaron's story about how much
Speaker 2: of her beef Wellington portion she ate kept changing because
Speaker 2: she was trying to manufacture and explanation for why she
Speaker 2: wasn't as ill as her guests. Aarin initially told medical
Speaker 2: staff she had eaten about half of her meal. Her
Speaker 2: account later shifted to one third or even as little
Speaker 2: as a quarter. Doctor Rogers said it was the prosecution's
Speaker 2: case that Aaron was not sick because she didn't eat
Speaker 2: any amount of death cap mushrooms. Finally, let's talk about
Speaker 2: the prosecution's fourth calculated deception, the sustained cover up. Aaron
Speaker 2: embarked on to conceal the truth.
Speaker 1: When you examine the evidence of what the accused said
Speaker 1: and did following the lunch, and particularly as it was
Speaker 1: realized that the lunch guests had consumed death Cap mushrooms,
Speaker 1: you will see that the accused lied and acted deceptively
Speaker 1: in other ways to deflect blame and suspicion about what
Speaker 1: she'd done. This specifically includes four things.
Speaker 3: As she had all day. Doctor Rogers went on to
Speaker 3: break down those four things. She said the cover up
Speaker 3: included erin lying about feeding her children leftovers of the
Speaker 3: beef Wellington with the mushroom scraped off, her lying about
Speaker 3: the mushrooms in the beef Wellington coming from Woolworth's and
Speaker 3: an Asian grosser, her disposing of her dehydrator at the
Speaker 3: tip a using it to dehydrate death caps, and deliberately
Speaker 3: concealing her usual phone from police. When it came to
Speaker 3: the lie about the leftovers, Doctor Rogers said that this
Speaker 3: was a lie Aaron told over multiple days to multiple people,
Speaker 3: including family members, doctors, nurses, child protection workers and Department
Speaker 3: of Health advisers. Erin's sun recounted that the night after
Speaker 3: the lunch, his mum spoke to him about Don and
Speaker 3: Gale's illnesses and said that she thought it might have
Speaker 3: been the lunch. The jury has previously heard that Aaron
Speaker 3: told doctors she went to hospital because she thought she
Speaker 3: had a case of food poisoning, but doctor Rogers questioned
Speaker 3: why Erin would feed her children leftovers of the beef
Speaker 3: Wellington meal Considering all of this, Here's what she said
Speaker 3: in court today.
Speaker 1: The accused later told doctor Laura Muldoon that she had
Speaker 1: not presented to hospital before the Monday morning, thirty first
Speaker 1: of July as she thought she had a case of
Speaker 1: food poisoning and had children with her at home yesterday Sunday.
Speaker 1: Why then, would the accused feed the leftovers of a
Speaker 1: meal to her children, knowing it had or even believing
Speaker 1: it might have led to the hospitalization of four people,
Speaker 1: and on her own account her own illness in particular,
Speaker 1: why would she feed them the meat portion of that meal, which,
Speaker 1: if she didn't know the mushrooms were the issue, would
Speaker 1: be the more obvious suspect for any food poisoning There
Speaker 1: is no reason to doubt that the children did eat steak,
Speaker 1: mashed potato, and beans on Sunday night, but it certainly
Speaker 1: was not the steak that had been cooked in mushroom
Speaker 1: paste and pastry the day before.
Speaker 2: Doctor Rogers went on to say that after Aarin was
Speaker 2: told her children needed urgent treatment, she didn't want to
Speaker 2: take them out of school because she didn't want to
Speaker 2: hassle them. Doctor Rogers said that was an extraordinary response
Speaker 2: from a mother. She said that Aaron's reluctance to have
Speaker 2: them brought to the hospital for medical assessment stemmed from
Speaker 2: the fact she knew they had not consumed death cap mushrooms.
Speaker 1: One would expect a potentially life threatening danger to her
Speaker 1: children would have galvanized the accused's interactions on their behalf.
Speaker 1: But of course, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for
Speaker 1: why the accused. A doting mother, as you have heard,
Speaker 1: was reluctant to have her children medically assessed. She knew
Speaker 1: they had not eaten death cap mushrooms at all. Her
Speaker 1: reluctance to have her children medically assessed is another piece
Speaker 1: of conduct by the accused, which we say is incriminating conduct.
Speaker 3: Aeron told the jury last week that she scraped off
Speaker 3: the mushrooms and the pastry from the six beef Wellington
Speaker 3: she had prepared before giving it to her children. But
Speaker 3: doctor Rogers said today that the scientific evidence strongly suggested
Speaker 3: that simply scraping off the mushrooms would not have been
Speaker 3: enough to prevent the children from ingesting the toxins from
Speaker 3: the death caps if they were in the sixth serve.
Speaker 3: Here's what she said.
Speaker 1: The meat from that dish carried beta ammanitan in it.
Speaker 1: Even when a forensic toxicologists tried to extract the meat
Speaker 1: portion for analysis, it could not be entirely separated from
Speaker 1: the mushroom paste. It is impossible, we suggest to you
Speaker 1: that the accused could have served up a piece of
Speaker 1: leftover steak with all of the poisonous mushrooms or mushroom
Speaker 1: paste removed. Not even a forensic toxicologist managed to do
Speaker 1: that in a laboratory.
Speaker 2: Let's move on to the second point of the fourth deception,
Speaker 2: Aaron lying about all the mushrooms in the beef Wellington
Speaker 2: coming from Woolworths and an Asian groser. Doctor Rogers said
Speaker 2: this is a lie for three reasons. Number one, her
Speaker 2: story about the Asian Groser kept changing. Number two, she
Speaker 2: was not forthcoming with the Department of Health and number
Speaker 2: three death caps are highly unlikely to appear on store shelf.
Speaker 3: Doctor Rogers did really make a lot of numbered points today,
Speaker 3: so we hope you're all following along. But when talking
Speaker 3: about the first reason of the second point of her
Speaker 3: fourth deception, doctor Rogers said that Aaron's story about the
Speaker 3: Asian Grocer evolved between July thirty one and August two.
Speaker 3: Doctor Rogers ran through the testimony of almost a dozen witnesses,
Speaker 3: particularly around what they said Aaron told them about the
Speaker 3: location of the Asian Grocer. Aeron told doctor Webster at
Speaker 3: lean Gatha Hospital on July thirty one that she bought
Speaker 3: all the mushrooms in the meal from Woolworth's. Two and
Speaker 3: a half hours later, at ten thirty, she told Simon's
Speaker 3: brother Matthew Patterson that she also bought dried mushrooms from
Speaker 3: a Chinese grocer in the Oakley area. Around that time,
Speaker 3: she also spoke to doctor Veronica Foot and said to
Speaker 3: her that the dried mushrooms came from a Chinese grocer
Speaker 3: in Melbourne. She didn't mention any suburbs About twenty minutes later,
Speaker 3: she spoke to doctor Connor McDermott from Austin Health, who
Speaker 3: said she bought button mushrooms from Woolworth's and dried mushrooms
Speaker 3: from a Chinese grocer in Oakley. She also mentioned at
Speaker 3: this point that the grocer may have been in Glen Waverley.
Speaker 3: At two forty pm, she told two paramedics that the
Speaker 3: dried mushrooms came from an Asian grocer in Melbourne. When
Speaker 3: she got to Monash Medical Center, she told doctor Muldoon
Speaker 3: at four PM that the dried mushrooms may have come
Speaker 3: from an Asian grocer in Glen Waverley. Finally, two hours later,
Speaker 3: at six pm, she told Public Health Director Ronda Stewart
Speaker 3: that the dried mushrooms may have come from an Asian
Speaker 3: grocer in Oakley or Glen Waverley, but doctor Rogers said
Speaker 3: Erin's story continued to evolve. The next day, she told
Speaker 3: Senior Public Health Advisor Sally Anne Atkinson that the dried
Speaker 3: mushrooms may have come from an Asian grocer in either Clayton,
Speaker 3: Mount Waverley or Oakley. Doctor Rogers said this was the
Speaker 3: first time Aaron had mentioned Clayton or Mount Waverley. Later
Speaker 3: that day, she spoke to child protection worker Katrina Cripps
Speaker 3: and told her that the ride mushrooms may have come
Speaker 3: from an Asian grocer in Oakley or Clayton, but Doctor
Speaker 3: Rogers said she didn't mention Mount Waverley to Miss Cripps,
Speaker 3: despite mentioning it six hours earlier to Miss Atkinson. The
Speaker 3: next day, on August two, Erin again spoke to Miss
Speaker 3: Atkinson and mentioned Oakley and Clayton, but did not mention
Speaker 3: Glen Waverley in her last example. Doctor Rogers said that
Speaker 3: Aaron spoke again to Miss Atkinson on August three and
Speaker 3: mentioned strip shopping in Oakley, but then this time mentioned
Speaker 3: Glen Waverley.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's a lot of suburbs, Laura, so let
Speaker 2: me summarize. She mentioned Oakley, Glen Waverley, Clayton, and Mount Waverley.
Speaker 3: And Melbourne as well at large, but different combinations. It
Speaker 3: appears to different people. And this was something Doctor Rogers
Speaker 3: really wanted to make a point of. Here is what
Speaker 3: she told the jury.
Speaker 1: Even if you could accept it is something you might
Speaker 1: not remember, you would think that if you were in
Speaker 1: a situation like this, for the sake of your very
Speaker 1: ill family men, and for anyone else who might be exposed,
Speaker 1: you would do everything you could to try and remember
Speaker 1: the store. But the accused sat on her hands while Don,
Speaker 1: gail Ian, and Heather were all in Coma's She was
Speaker 1: slow to respond to the Department of Health, even totally
Speaker 1: non responsive at times, and as time passed, her description
Speaker 1: of the Chinese food store shifted and grew broader.
Speaker 2: Then doctor Rogers described how remarkable Erin's memory was last
Speaker 2: week while she was giving evidence compared to her memory
Speaker 2: of the Asian grosser.
Speaker 1: You might have noticed that when the accused was giving
Speaker 1: the evidence that she appeared to have a remarkable memory.
Speaker 1: She could recall dates, evidence, and details easily, as she
Speaker 1: was being asked questions over many days. Even now in
Speaker 1: June twenty twenty five, she could recall that twenty eighth
Speaker 1: of April twenty twenty three was a Friday and not
Speaker 1: a Monday, as I had suggested to her in cross examination.
Speaker 1: Yet on August thirteenth, twenty twenty three, she could not
Speaker 1: recall the shop or even the suburb where she purchased
Speaker 1: the mushrooms from an Asian grocer in the same April
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three. It's simply beggars belief.
Speaker 3: So doctor Rogers will continue her closing address tomorrow, where
Speaker 3: she will cover the last two points of the fourth deception,
Speaker 3: those being that Erin disposed of the dehydrator and deliberately
Speaker 3: concealed her usual phone from police. We don't know how
Speaker 3: long doctor Rogers's address will go on for after that,
Speaker 3: but once she's done, it will then be the defense's turn.
Speaker 3: Defense barrister Colin Mandy will also deliver a closing address
Speaker 3: to the jury. Erin is claiming that she may have
Speaker 3: accidentally added mushrooms she foraged into the meal with the
Speaker 3: dried mushrooms she purchased from the Asian grocer.
Speaker 2: Thanks Laura. See you tomorrow for another episode, See you,
Speaker 2: Brooks