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Speaker 1: On a cold winter morning at the Green End of Victoria,

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Speaker 1: five people sat down for a meal beef wrapped in

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Speaker 1: pastry with a mushroom paste. Within days, three were dead.

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Speaker 1: Now two years on, the two survivors of that meal

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Speaker 1: are facing one another in a Latrobe Valley courtroom. Aaron

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Speaker 1: Patterson is in the dock and Ian Wilkinson is in

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Speaker 1: the witness box, and for the first time, Ian explains

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Speaker 1: exactly what happened at that lunch.

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Speaker 2: Each person had an individual serve. It was very much

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Speaker 2: like a pasty if you imagine a pasty being put

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Speaker 2: on a plate, pastry incaste, and when we cut into

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Speaker 2: it there was steak and mushrooms.

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Speaker 1: I'm Brook Greebert Craig, and this is the mushroom cook. Hi, Laura,

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Speaker 1: we're back for another episode.

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Speaker 3: We certainly are.

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Speaker 1: What the listeners just heard was a voice actor. It's

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Speaker 1: what Ian Wilkinson, the only guest to survive that deadly

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Speaker 1: lunch on July twenty nine, set in court today.

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Speaker 3: And can I just say that voice actor sounded remarkably

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Speaker 3: like Ian where you heard his voice in court today

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Speaker 3: and they are very similar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they are.

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Speaker 3: So I think we need to just take a step

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Speaker 3: back here and remind our listeners why we're here reporting

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Speaker 3: on this trial. This case centers around a lunch, and

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Speaker 3: of the last few episodes, we actually haven't spoken too

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Speaker 3: much about the lunch. Last week, Erin's estranged husband, Simon,

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Speaker 3: The four people that were there were Simon's parents, Don

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Speaker 3: who is Ian So.

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Speaker 1: Ian's the pastor of the karen Borough Baptist Church. He's

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Speaker 1: been in that role for twenty six years. We heard

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Speaker 1: in court today that he met Heather in nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: six and they married in nineteen seventy nine. So, Laura,

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Speaker 1: this was the first time that Ian has publicly spoken

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Speaker 1: about the details of the lunch.

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Speaker 3: That's correct, and as you can imagine, he had a

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Speaker 3: So his evidence is really important. And just to remind

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Speaker 3: our listeners, Erin claims what happened at the lunch was

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Speaker 3: a tragedy and a terrible accident. She has pleaded not

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Speaker 1: So before we get into the nitty gritty of the lunch,

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Speaker 1: let's chat about what Ian said about his relationship with Aaron.

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Speaker 3: He was asked this at the start of today. He

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Speaker 3: keeping in mind that for more than a decade Aaron

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Speaker 1: Ian also said that Heather's relationship with Aaron was quite

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Speaker 3: And I mentioned church before, and that is actually the

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Speaker 3: place that Ian said. Aaron invited both himself and his

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Speaker 1: Nine, and this was about one or two weeks before

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Speaker 3: That's correct. And Ian recalled Heather being fairly excited that

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Speaker 1: So at about twelve thirty PM, all four of the

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Speaker 3: And there was even a little joke in court that

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Speaker 1: Then Aaron met the guests outside and they all then

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Speaker 1: This was quite heartwarming. In court today, Ian told the

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Speaker 3: engaging in a conversation about that, and then soon after

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, So Aaron was in the kitchen plating

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Speaker 3: As our listeners may remember from last week, the jury

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Speaker 3: Aaron's defense barrister Colin Mandy tried to suggest to Ian

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Speaker 3: Ian doubled down. He said to mister Mandy that he

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Speaker 1: So on the plates were individual serves of beef, wellington,

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Speaker 1: So after the lunch, Aaron announced something to the guests.

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Speaker 3: We heard today that Gail brought a cake to the

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Speaker 1: So back to what I was about to say. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: So after the lunch, Ian said that Aaron had an announcement.

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Speaker 3: He did, He said, Erin revealed to the guests that

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Speaker 3: she had cancer. This is his evidence, but it's not

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Speaker 2: She said she was very concerned because she believed it

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Speaker 1: Ian told the jury the group then prayed.

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Speaker 2: I prayed, asking God's blessing on Erin, that she would

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Speaker 1: Ian was then questioned about Aaron's cancer. Further, wasn't he

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Speaker 3: Mister Mandy suggested to Ian that what was actually said

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Speaker 3: a suspected diagnosis of cancer. Just to cast our listener's

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Speaker 3: By this time we were nearing the end of Ian's

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Speaker 1: After weeks in hospital, Ian recovered and he was eventually

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Speaker 3: Yes, So I was sitting in court today when Ian

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Speaker 1: So after Ian was done with his evidence, we also

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Speaker 3: We heard from three medical witnesses, so we had a

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Speaker 3: paramedic Cindy Hyde, a nurse Lisa Shannon, and a doctor

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Speaker 3: Beth Morgan. These three all treated Don and Gale the

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Speaker 3: his liver. And I'm definitely not going to try and

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on to the dehydrader now. So for

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Speaker 1: the last four or five days, the dehydrata has made

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think we've mentioned it almost every day.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so today we heard from a witness called Darren Fox,

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Speaker 1: who was he Laura.

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Speaker 3: He owns a Better Home Living store in Lee and Gatha.

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Speaker 3: This is a store that sells small appliances, bedding, furniture

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Speaker 1: So he told the court that one of his employees

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Speaker 3: Yes, and it's that dehydrator. And we heard a little

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Speaker 3: bit more about this appliance. It's a Sunbeam Food Lab

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Speaker 3: dehydrator and it's about two hundred and twenty nine dollars.

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Speaker 1: The Drew was actually shown a tax invoice with Aaron

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Speaker 1: Patterson's details on it. The tax invoice was dated April

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Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty twenty three, and the dehydrator was purchased

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Speaker 1: at twelve seventeen PM.

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Speaker 3: And rest assured this is not the last you'll be

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Speaker 3: hearing about the dehydrator.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Laura. Remember you can catch up on all of

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Speaker 1: our live blogs, coverage and more at the mushroomcook dot

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Speaker 1: com dot au