The husband of Erin Patterson, convicted of poisoning three people to death with deadly mushrooms, told an Australian court he suspected his wife had been trying to poison him more than a year before the fatal meal.
On Friday, a judge lifted a gag order on pretrial evidence Patterson, 50, had sought to keep confidential as she fights to overturn her triple murder convictions.
Among the revelations was testimony from Patterson’s estranged husband, Simon Patterson, who said he declined a lunch invitation out of fear she might poison him.
“I thought there’d be a risk that she’d poison me if I attended,” Simon told the court months before the trial – testimony that jurors never heard.
Though he stopped eating food prepared by his wife after their separation in 2015, Simon said he never suspected others could be in danger.
