Erin Patterson mushroom homicide trial LIVE updates: Erin Patterson’s lawyer makes shock declare about location of mysterious lacking ‘Telephone A’ – as her Fb messages with on-line buddies are revealed: ‘What morons’

Defence barrister Colin Mandy SC confirmed murder detective Senior Constable Stephen Eppingstall an excerpt of Fb messages between Erin Patterson and her ‘on-line buddies’.

Mr Mandy stated the excerpt got here from a report which contained 186 pages of chat messages between various folks.

The jury heard a good friend despatched a message, ‘what ‘morons’, and adopted up with, ‘anyway, you were not asking them to adjudicate, you simply wished them to listen to your story’.

Patterson responded: ‘I stated to him about 50 instances yesterday that I did not need them to adjudicate’.

‘No person bloody listens to me. At the very least I do know they are a misplaced trigger.’

One other good friend wrote: ‘If you have not heard from Simon, invite him for a response.’

One other wrote: ‘It is pathetic.’

A 3rd wrote: ‘If he does not wish to speak about your marriage, they might at the least demand to understand how he is financially supporting the youngsters.’

Mr Mandy urged the buddies have been venting with one another.

Additionally they mentioned Cheers actress Kirstie Alley’s loss of life and their pets.

Defence barrister Colin Mandy SC is now questioning murder detective Senior Constable Stephen Eppingstall concerning the police search at Erin Patterson’s Leongatha house on August 5, 2023.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated he spent more often than not supervising Patterson through the search which occured per week after the lethal mushroom lunch.

Senior Constable Meg Crawford supervised Patterson whereas she went to the bathroom and aided with the accused’s younger daughter at one stage, the jury heard.

Mr Mandy urged Patterson was allowed to spend about 14 minutes in a TV room close to the entrance of the home.

‘It was longer, I feel it was about 20 minutes, sir,’ Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated police didn’t find or seize a Nokia owned by Erin Patterson however mentioned that telephone through the police interview later that day.

The court docket has beforehand heard that information present the SIM card from a Samsung Galaxy A23 often known as ‘Telephone A’ was switched right into a Nokia through the search.

Police have been unable to find Telephone A.

‘We positively did not seize the Nokia,’ the detective stated.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall additionally agreed a second Samsung Galaxy A23 often known as ‘Telephone B’ – which police did seize – was related to the web whereas it was sealed in a bag and positioned in a locker on the Murder Squad headquarters in Melbourne.

Mr Mandy confirmed Sen-Constable Eppingstall pictures from the police search, pointing to a black object proven in one in all them.

‘Can I recommend that’s Telephone A in a case,’ Mr Mandy stated.

The detective responded: ‘If that was a telephone I feel we’d have discovered it, we’d have seized it.’

‘We took the whole lot (digital units) we discovered.’

Mr Mandy additionally confirmed the detective a number of different search pictures which he urged confirmed digital objects and units that weren’t seized.

‘I used to be with Ms Patterson, sir,’ Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated.

Defence barrister Colin Mandy SC (pictured under left) has advised the court docket that imaginative and prescient of an individual coming into the Leongatha Subway was not the accused’s son, because the jury has beforehand heard.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall was requested to check a photograph of the son with Don Patterson and a nonetheless picture taken from the Subway of an individual inside the shop, which Mr Mandy stated doesn’t depict the son.

The jury was additionally recognized a nonetheless picture taken from video of the son’s police interview and once more in contrast the photographs.

‘Nevertheless it’s not the identical particular person,’ Mr Mandy stated.

‘That’s a matter for the jury,’ Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated.

Defence barrister Colin Mandy SC advised murder detective Senior Constable Stephen Eppingstall that Professor Matthew Sorell stated EBN knowledge – a specialist cellular system location instrument – was extra ‘helpful in establishing potential areas of handsests’ than one other methodology often known as CCR knowledge.

The jury heard ‘EBN knowledge can set up whether or not or not a go to was made (to any location) even when CCRs didn’t present a basis for that proposition’.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall agreed with Mr Mandy however stated police solely had EBN knowledge for a ‘handful of days’ due to the fee.

The detective stated through the investigation the price of utilizing EBN knowledge was $1700 for 2 hours.

‘(Utilizing EBN knowledge courting again) a yr can be properly into six figures,’ Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated.

‘My boss isn’t too eager once I spend an excessive amount of cash.’

Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated he was speaking to Dr Tom Might (pictured) about loss of life cap mushrooms when the knowledgeable witness advised him a few sighting in Outtrim, about quarter-hour drive from Leongatha.

The jury heard Dr Might advised the detective, unprompted, he had noticed a loss of life cap in Outtrim and uploaded it to iNaturalist below the deal with ‘Funkey Tom’.

Murder detective Senior Constable Stephen Eppingstall advised the jury that Simon Patterson (pictured) handed his telephone to police on August 6, 2023, however couldn’t carry out a knowledge extraction so handed the telephone again.

Simon gave the telephone to police once more on September 12 and it then was handed over to the Cybercrime Squad for knowledge extraction.

The court docket heard Simon had modified telephones throughout that interval however stated the system he gave police on September 12 was the identical one returned to him on August 6.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated he solely gave directions to retreive textual content messages from Simon’s telephone.

‘‘That’s all I requested for,’ the detective stated.

The jury heard 70 pages of information was extracted which contained about 280 texts between Simon and Erin.

The complete obtain of Simon’s telephone was proven to the jury.

The jury heard Simon handed over telephones belonging to his mother and father Gail and Don Patterson on August 6.

‘I consider we obtained a full extraction of Gail’s telephone,’ Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated.

‘Don’s telephone was fairly empty, I do not suppose he used his telephone very a lot.’

Sen-Constable Stephen Eppingstall stated he had a number of extra conferences with Erin Patterson and her estranged husband Simon after her preliminary police interview on August 5, per week after the lethal mushroom lunch.

He advised the jury he additionally obtained statements from Erin’s Bendigo Checking account from July 1 to August 4, 2023.

‘Can’t clarify why we didn’t return additional,’ Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated.

Mr Mandy raised with Sen-Constable Eppingstall two purchases Erin had made on July 5, 2023.

One transaction was made at a 7-Eleven retailer at Glen Waverley, in Melbourne’s east.

The opposite was made quickly after with a vendor the jury heard was referred to as ‘Chou Buying and selling P/L’.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall agreed he noticed the 7-Eleven file.

Lead defence barrister Colin Mandy SC is constant his cross-examination of the ultimate prosecution witness, Murder Squad detective main Senior Constable Stephen Eppingstall.

Erin Patterson, who’s at this time sporting a paisley high, listened as Mr Mandy requested Sen-Constable Eppingstall if he was conscious the accused weighed 111.7kg when she was admitted to hospital on July 31.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall confirmed he was conscious and likewise agreed that Patterson purchased a number of books about weight-reduction plan from Booktopia.

Mr Mandy additionally raised police protocols relating to media protection of the lethal mushroom lunch case.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall agreed that holding traces – a generic assertion from police media – had been ready.

‘There was vital media curiosity,’ Mr Mandy stated.

The jury heard mainstream media had lined the case broadly on August 5.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated investigators famous the ‘vital’ media protection and media ‘administration’ was to be ongoing.

The detective additionally agreed media was camped exterior Patterson’s Leongatha house and a few members even went onto the property.

Lead murder detective Senior-Constable Stephen Eppingstall (pictured under) advised the Erin Patterson homicide trial jury that police examined 81 pages of digital information surrounding the system recognized within the trial as ‘Telephone A’.

Nonetheless, the jury heard police have been by no means capable of finding and seize the telephone, a second Samsung Galaxy A23.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated he found the existence of the telephone and retreived information courting from 2019 to July 2023 for the quantity ending ‘783’.

‘The 783 quantity is in use for that total interval,’ he advised the jury.

The detective stated he investigated the telephone after police realised that they had an ‘situation’ with ‘Telephone B’, one other Samsung Galaxy A23 seized from Patterson’s bed room throughout a search of her house on August 5, 2023 – per week after the lethal lunch.

The jury beforehand heard proof that Telephone B was remotely manufacturing facility reset whereas in a safe locker on the Murder Squad headquarters in Melbourne on August 6.

The telephone had additionally been reset at 1.20pm on August 5 – about the identical time Patterson was left alone for ’20 to half-hour’ to make a telephone name whereas police searched her Leongatha house.

Later, Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated he realised the quantity for Telephone B offered by Patterson throughout her police interview had solely been related on July 11, 2023.

Police additionally seized a Samsung Galaxy pill which contained 19 pages of principally knowledge information. Nonetheless, SMS textual content messages have been found on the system.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall stated the SIM card from the pill had been within the system till August 3, 2023, earlier than it was then positioned in Telephone B.

The detective advised the court docket information indicated the SIM card from Telephone A was positioned right into a Nokia telephone which had been seized by police.

‘(At) 1.45pm on the fifth of August, 2023, we see the precise SIM card change from Telephone A into a unique telephone,’ Sen-Constable Eppingstall advised the court docket.

Investigators searched Patterson’s Leongatha house once more on November 2 searching for Telephone A however couldn’t find it.

Erin Patterson, 50, is accused of murdering her in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, after allegedly serving them a beef Wellington lunch which included loss of life cap mushrooms.

Patterson can also be accused of trying to homicide Heather’s husband, pastor Ian Wilkinson, who survived the lunch after spending a number of weeks in an intensive care unit.

The court docket heard Patterson’s estranged husband, Simon, was additionally invited to the gathering at her house in Leongatha, in Victoria’s Gippsland area, however did not attend.

Witnesses advised the jury Patterson ate her serving of the lunch from a smaller and otherwise colored plate than these of her company, who ate from 4 gray plates.

Patterson advised authorities she purchased dried mushrooms from an unnamed Asian retailer within the Monash space of Melbourne, however well being inspectors might discover no proof of this.

Victoria’s well being division declared the loss of life cap mushroom poisoning was ‘remoted’ to Patterson’s lethal lunch.

A number of witnesses, together with Erin’s estranged husband Simon Patterson, Heather’s husband Ian Wilkinson and different relations, have given emotion-charged proof to the jury.

Medical employees have advised the jury of the painful signs the dying lunch company and Mr Wilkinson suffered.

An knowledgeable witness advised the court docket loss of life cap mushrooms have been detected in particles taken from a dehydrator Patterson had dumped at an area tip.

Telecommunications knowledgeable Dr Matthew Sorell additionally advised the jury that Patterson’s telephone was detected close to areas at Outtrim and Loch, within the Gippsland area, the place loss of life cap mushrooms had been noticed.

Victoria Police Cybercrime Squad senior digital forensics officer Shamen Fox-Henry stated he discovered proof of a loss of life cap mushroom on knowledge from a pc seized from Patterson’s Leongatha house on August 5, 2023.

On Friday, Austin Hospital intensive care director Professor Stephen Warrillow advised the jury he was on the Melbourne well being facility in July 2023 when the poisoned lunch company have been transferred to his care.

Professor Warrillow stated all sufferers got intense therapy and Don acquired a liver transplant.

Ian Wilkinson (pictured under) sat in court docket and listened as particulars of his spouse died from loss of life cap poisoning have been aired in court docket.

The jury additionally heard the textual content exchanges between well being division officer Sally Anne Atkinson and Patterson within the days after the lethal lunch as authorities rushed to resolve the reason for the outbreak.

On Tuesday, the jury was proven the police interview Patterson took half in shortly after her house was searched on August 5.

Detectives seized a handbook for a Sunbeam hydrator however Patterson denied in her interview that she ever owned such an equipment.

Patterson additionally advised police she invited her in-laws for lunch as a result of she cherished them they usually have been like actual household to her.

Murder Squad detective main Senior Constable Stephen Eppingstall, the police informant within the Patterson trial, advised the court docket officers looked for a Samsung Galaxy A23 – often known as ‘Telephone A’ – however it was by no means discovered.

Sen-Constable Eppingstall additionally stated one other Samsung Galaxy A23 – often known as ‘Telephone B’ – was manufacturing facility reset a number of instances together with whereas police searched Patterson’s Leongatha house.

He stated Telephone B was later remotely wiped whereas it was stored in a safe locker on the Murder Squad headquarters in Melbourne.

The jury additionally heard Patterson’s household had a historical past of most cancers and her daughter had a benign ovarian most cancers cyst eliminated.