Accused told court the moment she realised she could be blamed for harming her in-laws came before they even died

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In Erin Patterson’s telling, the moment she realised she could be blamed for harming her in-laws came before they even died.

According to evidence Patterson gave at her triple-murder trial this week, she was in a Monash hospital room alone with her estranged husband, Simon, after their two children had left to buy food from a vending machine, when he asked her: “Is that how you poisoned my parents, using that dehydrator?”