‘They can be scared or dead’: GP’s warning to accused mushroom poisoner
Doctors urged Erin Patterson to take her children to hospital, the Supreme Court of Victoria was told.
Two GPs who treated accused mushroom poisoner Erin Patterson after she dished up a fatal lunch of beef Wellington have given evidence in her murder trial.
Dr Christopher Webster and Dr Veronica Foote were both on duty at Leongatha Hospital in Victoria’s southeast when Ms Patterson presented, saying she had “gastro”.
The 50-year-old mother has pleaded not guilty after she was accused of lacing a family meal of beef Wellington with death cap mushrooms in July 2023.
Her former in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, all died in hospital days after the meal.
