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Speaker 1: The first week in the murder trial against Mushroom Cook

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Speaker 1: Aaron Patterson is wrapped up. She's accused of feeding her

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Speaker 1: exis parents and sister a poisoned beef. Wellington Herald's son

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Speaker 1: reporter Brooke Grebert Craig hosts the podcast The Mushroom Cook,

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Speaker 1: and she's been in Cook Court this weekend. Is with us? Now, Hey, Brook,

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Speaker 1: hi there, how are you very well? Thank you? Now,

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Speaker 1: I understand you guys have got a huge amount of

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Speaker 1: international interest. Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Yes, there's been so much media attention down in Regional Victoria,

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Speaker 2: which is in Australia. There's just so much media down here.

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Speaker 2: It's been quite a well wind.

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Speaker 1: How has Aaron Patterson been acting in court?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so Erin's been sitting in the dock every day

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Speaker 2: and she's been listening to the evidence. So she has

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Speaker 2: a screen in front of her, so when all the

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Speaker 2: exhibits come up, she's been looking at them. On the

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Speaker 2: first day she wore a pink and white shirt and

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Speaker 2: yet she's just been kind of changing her clothes each day.

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Speaker 1: Now, earlier this week we heard that her strange husband

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Speaker 1: declined the invitation for that lunch, right, and that you

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Speaker 1: got really really upset about that. Tell us a little

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Speaker 1: bit more about that, because that seems quite material.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So the court heard that Simon declined the in

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Speaker 2: by a day before the July twenty nine lunch. He

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Speaker 2: sent Aaron a text and said that he was too

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Speaker 2: uncomfortable to attend. The jury heard that Aaron replied and

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Speaker 2: said that she was disappointed that he wouldn't be coming

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Speaker 2: because she spent a small fortune on beef.

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Speaker 1: I fill it. But their relationship to this up to

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Speaker 1: this point sounded like it was reasonably amicable. Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Yes, So the jury heard that they met in two

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Speaker 2: thousand while they were working for a local council, and

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Speaker 2: then they got married in two thousand and seven, but

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Speaker 2: they had an on and off again relationship until they

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Speaker 2: finally separated in twenty fifteen. They did have a friendship

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Speaker 2: going for a couple of years, but that did turn

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Speaker 2: Sarah in twenty twenty two, and in court over the

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Speaker 2: last couple of days, we've heard that that was over

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Speaker 2: a range of different things like tax returns and child support.

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Speaker 1: Very interesting, Hey, Brook, thanks very much for keeping on.

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Speaker 1: It's Brook Greber Craig, who is with the Herald on

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Speaker 1: Sun reporter and also our host of the podcast The

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Speaker 1: Mushroom Cook The Trial. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive,

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