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Speaker 1: So you're listening to a Muma Mea podcast. Mumma Meer

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Speaker 1: acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters that this

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Speaker 2: Hi. I'm Ailish Delaney from Mumma MEA's twice daily news podcast,

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Speaker 2: The Quickie with Your Headlines. For Monday, July seven, the

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Speaker 2: jury in the triple murder trial of Aaron Patterson has

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Speaker 2: reached a verdict. Taylor Schrano reports.

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Speaker 1: Erin Patterson has been found guilty on all charges. The

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Speaker 1: fifty year old woman accused of killing three people and

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Speaker 1: attempting to murder a fourth by serving them a lunch

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Speaker 1: of beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms in July

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, has been found guilty of three counts

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Speaker 1: of murder and one count of attempted murder. For eight weeks,

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Speaker 1: the mushroom murder trial played out in a courtroom in Morewell,

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Speaker 1: a small town about one hundred and fifty kilometers east

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Speaker 1: of Melbourne. The jury deliberated for seven days before reaching

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Speaker 1: today's verdict. Patterson was led to the dock for the

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Speaker 1: verdict was readled out in the court room where Justice

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Speaker 1: Christopher Biale has presided over the case. Patterson was arrested

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Speaker 1: and charged in November twenty twenty three, but pleaded not

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Speaker 1: guilty to all charges, maintaining any death cap mushrooms were

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Speaker 1: not deliberately included in the meal. Her lawyer, Colin Mandy

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Speaker 1: s c reminding the jury if they had reasonable doubt

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Speaker 1: his client murdered three of her four lunch guests, she

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Speaker 1: cannot and must not be found guilty. He is a

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Speaker 1: condensed alleged timeline of events leading up to the arrest

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Speaker 1: of the accused. On July twenty nine, twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Patterson invited her former in laws Don and Gail Patterson,

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Speaker 1: and family friends Ian and Heather Wilkinson over for lunch

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Speaker 1: at her home in Leon, gathera serving a beef Wellington

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Speaker 1: that allegedly contained death cap mushrooms. Within days, Don, Gail

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Speaker 1: and Heather died from suspected mushroom poisoning, while Ian survived

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Speaker 1: after weeks in hospital. Leading up to the lunch, prosecutors

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Speaker 1: alleged erin research mushrooms, bought a dehydrator and used two

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Speaker 1: mobile phones to cover her tracks. She was arrested and

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Speaker 1: charged with three counts of murder on November two, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, with the trial for those charges commencing in

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Speaker 1: early April this year. Both the prosecution and defense gave

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Speaker 1: their closing address in late June. Throughout the trial, the

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Speaker 1: jury has heard from multiple witnesses, ranging from forensic experts

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Speaker 1: to medical professionals, Aaron Patterson's family members, including her a

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Speaker 1: strange ex husband and erin herself. Multiple items of evidence

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Speaker 1: were presented during the trial. Everything from a food dehydrator

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Speaker 1: to web searches were included in proceedings as the jury

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Speaker 1: listened on to determine whether or not the accused intentionally

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Speaker 1: fed her guest a poison lunch, leading to their deaths.

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Speaker 1: Miss Patterson will now be remanded in custody with a

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Speaker 1: sentence hearing scheduled for a later date.

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Speaker 2: A warning This next story contains the name of an

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Speaker 2: Indigenous person who has died. The findings of Australia's longest

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Speaker 2: running inquest have been handed down almost six years after

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Speaker 2: Kamunji Walker was fatally shot by police. The nineteen years

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Speaker 2: died after being shot three times at close range by

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Speaker 2: Constable Zachary Rolf during a botched arrest at a home

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Speaker 2: in the remote Northern Territory community of Yandamu in November

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. In March twenty twenty two, a Northern Territory

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Speaker 2: Supreme Court jury acquitted Rolf of murdering Walker. Coroner Elizabeth

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Speaker 2: Armitage found Rolf was racist and said it cannot be

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Speaker 2: ruled out that his racist attitudes contributed to his conduct

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Speaker 2: on the night he shot and killed Walker. Armitage found

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Speaker 2: Rolf had used unnecessary force during five previous arrests, and

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Speaker 2: she had concerns about a further two. Fiji Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: Sitevenni Rambuka's week long visit to Australia has borne fruit,

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Speaker 2: with Anthony Albanesi's government agreeing to bolster aid by tens

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Speaker 2: of millions to the Pacific nation. Australia has agreed to

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Speaker 2: a fresh commitment of fifty two million dollars of support

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Speaker 2: with a focus on border security, taking commitments to the

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Speaker 2: Melanesian nation to just under five hundred million dollars over

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Speaker 2: the next four years. Foreign Minister Penny Wong has also

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Speaker 2: announced a deepening of policing and SI security ties, including

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Speaker 2: officers and advisors, to be embedded in Fijian operations. The

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Speaker 2: twelve million dollar funding will strengthen border security by improving

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Speaker 2: shipping container screening at Laotoka and suver ports to help

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Speaker 2: tackle the growing illicit drug crisis in Fiji. A new

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Speaker 2: anti hate task force, charged with tackling the bigger picture

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Speaker 2: of antisemitism, will meet within days, as a premier vows

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Speaker 2: to stamp out hatred towards Jews. At least four violent

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Speaker 2: incidents in Melbourne are being treated as antisemitic attacks, including

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Speaker 2: an alleged arson attack at a synagogue on Friday night.

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Speaker 2: The incidents have not been declared terrorist attacks, but Victoria

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Speaker 2: Police is working with counter terrorism officers to see if

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Speaker 2: there are any links between the events. Victorian Premier jacent

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Speaker 2: To Allen says the anti hate task force is intended

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Speaker 2: to look at the bigger picture across the city and state.

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Speaker 2: President Donald Trump says the US is close to finalizing

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Speaker 2: several trade agreements in the coming days and will notify

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Speaker 2: other countries of higher tariff rates by July nine. The

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Speaker 2: higher rates are scheduled to tex effect on August one.

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Speaker 2: Trump and other top officials had flagged the August one

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Speaker 2: date earlier, but it was unclear if all tariffs would

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Speaker 2: increase them. Trump in April announced a ten percent based

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Speaker 2: tariff right on most countries and additional duties ranging up

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Speaker 2: to fifty percent, Although he later delayed the effective date

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Speaker 2: for all but ten percent until July nine. The new

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Speaker 2: date offers countries a three week reprieve. King Charles has

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Speaker 2: called on Britain to remember the extraordinary courage and compassion

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Speaker 2: in the face of the horrors of the July seven

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Speaker 2: London bombings. On July seven, two thousand and five, four

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Speaker 2: suicide bombers struck the capital's transport network, killing fifty two

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Speaker 2: people and injuring more than seven hundred and seventy on

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Speaker 2: three London underground trains and a bus. Among these were

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Speaker 2: one Australian killed and eleven injured. In a message to

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Speaker 2: mark the twentieth anniversary of the attacks, Charles says comfort

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Speaker 2: can be taken from the spirit of unity in London

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Speaker 2: and the country more broadly, which has allowed the nation

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Speaker 2: to heal. That's your evening news headlines. On tomorrow's episode

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Speaker 2: of The Quickie, we look further into Melbourne's weekend of

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Speaker 2: alleged anti Semitic offenses and Trump's new alligator Alcatraz. Listen

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