3 h. ago Father played with his phone as police quizzed him over baby's brain injuries, murder trial hears

Thomas Holford, now 24, is accused of killing Everleigh Stroud following an incident at a home in Ramsgate, Kent on April 21, 2021.

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12 h. ago Erin Patterson denies all charges as triple murder trial testimony concludes

Accused maintains fatal mushroom lunch unintentional

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19 h. ago Australia mushroom trial live: evidence concludes in Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial after weeks of testimony from witnesses

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow liveWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastProsecutor Nanette Rogers SC turns to evidence about factory resets performed on the mobile referred to as “Phone B”. The court previously heard four resets – one in February 2023 and three in August 2023 – were performed on the phone that Erin Patterson provided to police during the search on 5 August 2023. Rogers says one of these resets were done when she was left alone to call a lawyer while police searched Patterson’s Leongatha home. Patterson rejects this and says she phoned a lawyer at 2pm. Rogers says Patterson performed the three factory resets after the lunch to “conceal” the contents on Phone B. Patterson rejects this. Rogers then turns to her final points in the cross-ex...

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34 h. ago Man tracked down his wife after she fled home and stabbed her 26 times as she pushed their baby in pram, murder trial told

Kulsuma Akter was 27 and from Oldham

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39 h. ago ‘The perfect dish for them’: Erin Patterson explains why she included dried mushrooms in fatal lunch

Triple-murder accused also denies foraging death caps hours before buying food dehydrator as trial continuesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has denied leading health officials on a “wild goose chase”, and that she foraged death cap mushrooms two hours before buying a food dehydrator, a Victorian court has heard.Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning four lunch guests with beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha, Victoria, on 29 July 2023. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial LIVE updates: Patterson is accused of purposely keeping her kids away from the fatal lunch

Follow Daily Mail Australia's live coverage of accused mushroom chef Erin Patterson's murder trial here.

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40 h. ago Erin Patterson denies foraging death cap mushrooms hours before buying food dehydrator, murder trial hears

Murder accused also tells Victorian supreme court that she thought beef wellingtons were ‘the perfect dish’ for dried mushroomsWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has denied leading health officials on a “wild goose chase”, and that she foraged death cap mushrooms two hours before buying a food dehydrator, a Victorian court has heard.Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning four lunch guests with beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha, Victoria, on 29 July 2023. Continue reading...

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50 h. ago Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's desperate 'rabbit hole' defense blasted in court filing

Prosecutors in Idaho have fired back at Bryan Kohberger's 11th-hour attempt to delay his capital murder trial, furiously responding: 'It is time.'

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58 h. ago ITV Emmerdale icon's tipped return to 'save' Tracy Robinson from John Sugden

Emmerdale viewers are convinced that a soap legend is set to make a return as Tracy Robinson's murder trial looms, with fans convinced John Sugden will make a comeback.

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60 h. ago Medics tell court how toddler allegedly murdered by grandparents was injured

Ethan Ives-Griffiths was desperately ill when he arrived at hospital and doctors operated with little hope of saving him

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63 h. ago ‘You knew how suspicious it would look’: Erin Patterson makes series of denials in tense cross

Patterson also tells triple murder trial she’s ‘puzzled’ clinic she says she had an appointment for a gastric bypass with offers no such surgeryWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson says she is “puzzled” that a clinic in which she said she had an appointment for a gastric bypass offers no such surgery, and denies lying about making herself vomit in the hours immediately after the beef wellington lunch, a court has heard.In her sixth day in the witness box, Patterson was repeatedly asked under cross-examination by prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC whether she was lying about the deadly lunch and other parts of her evidence before her triple-murder trial. Continue reading...

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64 h. ago Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial LIVE updates: Accused killer chef faces her sixth day on the witness stand

Follow Daily Mail Australia's live coverage of accused mushroom chef Erin Patterson's murder trial here.

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3 d. ago What happened to Sade Robinson? How a teen’s murder is fueling demand for change

When 19-year-old Sade Robinson didn't show up for her shift at a pizza joint in April 2024, her co-workers suspected something was wrong. Robinson had gone out on a first date the night before – but never returned home. Andrea Cavallier takes a look back at the tragic case as her killer is found guilty of her murder

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3 d. ago Boy, two, was placed on the child protection register month before 'he was murdered by his grandparents while his mother was upstairs', court hears

Michael Ives, 47, and Kerry Ives, 46, are on trial accused of murder, causing or allowing the death of a child and cruelty to a child - which they deny.

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3 d. ago Violence inflicted on toddler before his death shown to murder trial

Ethan Ives-Griffiths' grandparents are on trial accused of his murder

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5 d. ago Sade Robinson went on a first date and never came home. Her murder has fueled demands for change in missing persons cases

When 19-year-old Sade Robinson didn't show up for her shift at a pizza joint in April 2024, her co-workers suspected something was wrong. Robinson had gone out on a first date the night before – but never returned home. Andrea Cavallier takes a look back at the tragic case as her killer is found guilty of her murder

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5 d. ago America's worst mother Lori Vallow is thrown out of court after attacking judge

'Doomsday mom' Lori Vallow Daybell, 51, is facing charges in Arizona for the attempted murder of Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of her niece.

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6 d. ago Bride's brother used car 'as weapon' to murder Good Samaritan before stabbing the groom when family feud exploded after wedding, court hears

Hassan Jhangur, 25, hit five people including Chris Marriott with his Seat Ibiza in Sheffield when he arrived at his sister's wedding reception, where a fight had broken out between the two families.

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6 d. ago Foraged mushrooms, fatal doses and food binges: the week Erin Patterson told her story to triple murder trial

Accused told court the moment she realised she could be blamed for harming her in-laws came before they even diedAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn Erin Patterson’s telling, the moment she realised she could be blamed for harming her in-laws came before they even died.According to evidence Patterson gave at her triple-murder trial this week, she was in a Monash hospital room alone with her estranged husband, Simon, after their two children had left to buy food from a vending machine, when he asked her: “Is that how you poisoned my parents, using that dehydrator?”Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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6 d. ago John Belfield 'panicked and fled' to South America after hearing rumours he was involved in Thomas Campbell murder, jury told

Mr Belfield was arrested in March 2023 and returned to the UK about a year later. He is on trial and denies murder.

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