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Speaker 1: Latro Valley law courts today there was nothing but heat

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Speaker 1: as Crown Prosecutor Nannette Rogers grilled Aaron Patterson. At one stage,

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Speaker 1: Simon Patterson, peppering her with questions about a phone call

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Speaker 2: Are you making this up as you go along, miss Patterson?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: This was one of several fiery exchanges the jury heard

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Speaker 1: in courtroom for today. I'm Brooke Greebert Craig, and this

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Speaker 1: is the mushroom call. I'm back in Morewell with my colleague,

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Speaker 1: court reporter Laura Plussella. Hi, Laura hey Brook.

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Speaker 4: The long weekend is over and we're here for day

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Speaker 4: twenty nine of Aaron Patterson's murder trial.

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Speaker 1: Yes week seven and a few more to go. Quite

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Speaker 1: a bit happened in court today. Aaron was once again

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Speaker 4: This is now her third day of cross examination, and

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Speaker 4: doctor Rogers took her today to the evidence of almost

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Speaker 4: and Aaron at times said today that those witnesses were

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the first topic of the day. Doctor

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Speaker 1: she had booked to explore gastric bypass surgery. Aaron said

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Speaker 1: the appointment was at Enrich Clinic in Melbourne on September thirteen,

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Speaker 4: To remind our listeners, Aaron has admitted she misled her

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Speaker 4: doctor Rogers put a specific question to her. Here's their

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Speaker 4: exchange in court today. It's been voiced by actors.

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Speaker 2: The Enriched Clinic does not offer gastric bypass surgery or

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Speaker 2: Enriched clinic does not conduct assessments relating to gastric bypass

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Speaker 3: Well that was I had an appointment with them, and

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Speaker 2: Your appointment at the Enriched Clinic, the appointment that you

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Speaker 3: Agree or disagree, Well, it would have been related to

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Speaker 2: When you gave sworn evidence to this jury last Friday

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Speaker 1: Doctor Rogers also asked Aaron questions in relation to citizen

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Speaker 4: and suggested to Aaron that her interest in death caps

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Speaker 2: Is it your evidence that the vomit was partly constituted

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Speaker 2: Well, you didn't have corn at the lunch.

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Speaker 4: It was at this point today that doctor Rogers took

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Speaker 2: Do you say she's mistaken? Yes.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't say I knew. I didn't think it was.

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Speaker 2: I suggest that you panicked and absconded because you knew

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Speaker 4: Dr Rogers suggested to her that lying down would be

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Speaker 4: it might be the last thing you'd do, but it

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Speaker 2: I suggest you were trying to work out how to

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Speaker 2: incorrect incorrect. You had not expected doctors to detect death

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Speaker 2: to try and explain why you were not sick, correct, incorrect,

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Speaker 2: And that's what you spent the one hour and forty

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Speaker 3: Oh, okay, you're saying I spent an hour and a

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Speaker 3: I did some thinking in that time, but it was

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Speaker 1: Aaron's cross examination finished with doctor Rogers asking her questions

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Speaker 1: that Erin told Senior Constable Adrian Martinez Villa Lobos he

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Speaker 4: Erin said that the bag contained the mushrooms and pastry

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Speaker 4: from one full beef Wellington and the mushrooms and pastry

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Speaker 4: from the part of her serve she did not eat.

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Speaker 4: She earlier told the court that she recalled eating around

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Speaker 4: a quarter to a third of her beef Wellington. Erin

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Speaker 4: denied the suggestion that the six beef Wellington she prepared,

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Speaker 4: the lunch. Justice Beer wanted clarity on this point, and

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Speaker 4: he asked Eron today, who did you make it for?

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Speaker 4: Aaron replied it was just an extra one. Simon wasn't coming.

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Speaker 4: Here's more of what was said about the leftovers.

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Speaker 2: I suggest that you disposed of the leftovers in your

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Speaker 2: at two forty five or thereabouts on Saturday, twenty ninth

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Speaker 2: of July yep and before you represented at Leongatha Hospital

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Speaker 2: at about nine forty five am on thirty pirst of July. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I suggest that you removed the steak from inside the

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Speaker 2: Correct or incorrect? I did do that the steak was

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Speaker 3: Into my children's stomachs?

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Speaker 2: And I suggest that you certainly did not feed that

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Speaker 2: you no doubt disagree with me.

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Speaker 3: Correct.

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Speaker 4: The day ended with doctor Rogers suggesting to Erin that

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Speaker 4: she had no means of removing them from her bin herself,

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Speaker 4: replied to that suggestion by saying, why wouldn't I just

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Speaker 1: Doctor Rogers then suggested that if she didn't tell police

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Speaker 1: where the leftovers were, it would have been suspicious. Aaron replied,

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Speaker 1: I have no idea about that. It was at this

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Speaker 1: Rogers and Aaron will face off again tomorrow as her

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Speaker 1: cross examination spills into a fourth day. To stay up

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