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Speaker 2: I was trying to be that was untrue, incorrect.

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Speaker 1: In fact, you sent them on a wild goose chase

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Speaker 3: Accused mushroom cook killer Aaron Pattison face Crown Prosecutor Nannette

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Speaker 3: Rodgers in the witness box again today. Virtually every claim

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Speaker 3: that she was a forager, to a story about dried

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Speaker 3: The exchanges between the two came in thick and fast,

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Speaker 3: and will break them all down today. I'm Brooke Greebert Craig,

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Speaker 3: and this is the mushroom cook. We've reached day thirty

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Speaker 4: Today almost feels like a milestone day thirty and it

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Speaker 4: Erin denied that she lied about having an interest in foraging.

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Speaker 4: But today doctor Rogers suggested that Erin did not have

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Speaker 4: doctor Rogers went on to say, this is a story

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Speaker 3: Moving on now, Doctor Rodgers suggested to Erin that she

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Speaker 4: Doctor Rogers was relying on the evidence of digital forensics

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Speaker 1: In fact, you you sent them on a wild goose

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Speaker 1: and a friend, that you had fed your children the

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Speaker 1: same meal that you had served at lunch on twenty

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Speaker 2: Oh, I was pretty clear it was the meal minus

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Speaker 2: the mushrooms and pastry, so not the same. But yes, But.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it the fact that on Sunday, the thirtieth of

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Speaker 1: July you found out at least Don and Gail were unwell.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I did find out about that.

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Speaker 1: So why did you proceed to feed the same meal

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Speaker 2: I didn't. I don't know or suspect that.

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Speaker 1: Your son gave evidence in his recorded interview that you

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Speaker 1: told him that Gail and Don were not well. Do

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Speaker 1: you remember that evidence?

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 1: You told that to your son.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure I did on Sunday night. I don't know

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Speaker 2: when on the Sunday or I don't know when I

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Speaker 2: told him that, but I did tell him.

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Speaker 4: Doctor Rogers had more questions for or they accused about

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Speaker 4: the leftovers.

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Speaker 1: You repeatedly told police you had scraped the mushrooms off

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Speaker 1: in an attempt to explain why the children were not sick.

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Speaker 1: Agree or disagree.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I've repeatedly told them, but I did

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Speaker 1: You told a number of people you had scraped the

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Speaker 1: mushrooms off, correct, correct, And I suggest that was an

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Speaker 1: attempt to explain why your children were not sick. No,

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Speaker 1: you told the lie about feeding leftovers from the beef

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Speaker 1: some distance from a deliberate poisoning.

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Speaker 2: I don't see how it could, but I disagree anyway.

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Speaker 3: Finally, the topic moved away from mushrooms and to the

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Speaker 3: issue of Erin's gastric bypass surgery. What did the jury

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Speaker 3: hear about that today?

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Speaker 4: Laura Erin previously testified that she had a pre surgery

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Speaker 4: appointment at the Enridge Clinic in Melbourne on September thirteen,

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Speaker 4: clinic specializes in cosmetic dermatology and doesn't offer gastric bypass surge.

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Speaker 4: Doctor Rogers peppered Errand with questions after she was provided

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Speaker 4: with a record from the clinic.

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Speaker 1: Firstly, do you accept that the Enriched Clinic does not offer,

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Speaker 1: and has never offered, gastric bypass surgery?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Secondly, do you accept that the Enriched Clinic does not offer,

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Speaker 1: and has never offered pre surgery assessments relating to gastric

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 1: And Thirdly, do you accept that the Enriched Clinic only

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Speaker 1: conducts examinations and procedures relating to the skin and its

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Speaker 3: I do to finish off, It's safe to say the

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Speaker 3: jury got their steps in today, didn't they, Laura.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they really did. This afternoon when doctor Rogers was

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Speaker 4: asked that led to objections by defense barrister mister Mandy.

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Speaker 4: The jury have become accustomed to this idea of once

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Speaker 4: discussion in their absence between the parties and Justice Christopher Beale,

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Speaker 4: and that happened quite a few times today. So they

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Speaker 4: and I think on one occasion they'd only been in

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Speaker 4: were asked to leave again, which did prompt some laughs

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Speaker 4: from the courtroom.

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Speaker 3: Yes it did. And Aaron will be back in the

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Speaker 3: witness box tomorrow, so stay tuned for our episode then,

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Speaker 3: but for now, go to the mushroomcook dot com dot

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Speaker 3: au to stay updated on the case.