Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder over a fatal mushroom lunch in 2023. Follow live
Beale says child protection worker Katrina Cripps testified that she first spoke to Patterson on 1 August 2023.
Cripps said Patterson told her she bought fresh mushrooms from Woolworths and dried mushrooms from an Asian grocer in Oakleigh or Clayton. When asked on 2 August 2023 if she had picked the mushrooms used in the beef wellington meal, Patterson was looking at her phone and did not reply, Cripps said.
Beale reminds the jury of evidence from Dr David Lovelolock, a virologist at Agriculture Victoria in August 2023 who analysed leftovers of the beef wellington meal.
Lovelock said death cap mushrooms were found in two out of seven test tube samples containing substance from a dehydrator dumped by Patterson in the days after the mushroom lunch.
