Accused, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder over a beef wellington lunch she served to in-laws
Coffee or tea and a trip to Tyabb
Mandy says Patterson’s son told police he saw his mother drinking a coffee the morning after the lunch. Patterson, who said she had diarrhoea at this point, said she was drinking herbal tea.
He rhetorically asks if Patterson son “watching his mother like a hawk all morning?”
Mandy says Patterson’s son was not focused on his mother. He accuses the prosecution of ignoring other evidence from Patterson’s son that his mother “didn’t sound like her happy self” that morning.
