27 h. 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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63 h. ago Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs dangled Cassie’s friend off balcony, jury hears

Bryana Bongolan tells Manhattan jurors that the hip-hop mogul held her off Cassie’s 17th-floor apartment in 2016Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs dangled a friend of his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura off the balcony of a 17th-floor apartment in September 2016, the friend testified on Wednesday at Combs’s sex-trafficking trial.Bryana Bongolan, Ventura’s friend, told jurors in Manhattan federal court that Combs then came up to her from behind on the balcony of Ventura’s Los Angeles apartment, lifted her up, and placed her on top of the balcony’s rail. Continue reading...

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63 h. ago Hainault sword attack trial: Schoolboy Daniel Anjorin, 14, 'slain' during 'cannabis psychosis' rampage, court told

Trial begins of Marcus Arduini Monzo accused of murdering 14-year-old and attempted murder of four others in north London

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65 h. ago Diddy trial live updates: Combs allegedly told Cassie’s friend ‘I am the devil and I could kill you’

Bryana Bongolan, a friend of Cassie’s, told jurors Combs threatened to kill her and dangled her over a 17-story balcony

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3 d. ago ‘Is that how you poisoned my parents?’: Erin Patterson tells mushroom trial husband confronted her over dehydrator

Triple murder accused, who denies deliberately poisoning anyone, tells court she dumped dehydrator used to dry foraged mushrooms due to feeling ‘scared’ of child protection officers seeing itWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has told a court her estranged husband asked her if she had used a dehydrator to poison his parents, and admitted resetting her phone out of fear police would discover photos she had of foraged mushrooms.In her third day in the witness box, Patterson also said she thinks there is a “possibility” that foraged mushrooms were unintentionally added to her beef wellington mixture as she tried to improve its “bland” flavour, and lied to her lunch guests about having cancer because she was embarrassed about planned weight loss surgery.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Erin Patterson accepts beef wellington served at fatal lunch contained death cap mushrooms, triple murder trial hears

Murder accused also tells jury she was never diagnosed with ovarian cancer and feels ‘ashamed’ of Facebook messages she wrote about her familyWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has told a court that the majority of the mushrooms in a beef wellington dish served in her Leongatha home came from a local supermarket, but says she also accepts the dish contained death caps.Patterson also said in evidence that she wishes she never said to her Facebook friends in a private group chat “this family I swear to fucking god” in relation to her in-laws, saying she felt ashamed but hoped that sharing her frustrations would mean she had a “big cheer squad” for her problems. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago ‘They didn’t deserve it’: emotional Erin Patterson tells murder trial of shame over messages about family

Murder accused also tells jury she was never diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had history of ‘consulting Dr Google’Erin Patterson trial LIVEWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has told a court she wishes she never told her Facebook friends in a private group chat “this family I swear to fucking god” in relation to her in-laws, saying she felt ashamed but hoped that sharing her frustrations would mean she had a “big cheer squad” for her problems.Patterson also told the jury in her triple murder trial that she was never diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had a history of “consulting Dr Google”, and hoped to bring her family back together despite a formal separation with her estranged husband, Simon, seven years earlier. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Blind man stabbed flatmate in heart with kitchen knife during 'argument', jury told as murder trial opens

James Murray died after Scott Thomson plunged a kitchen knife eight centimetres into his heart, jurors heard

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7 d. ago Heaven nightclub security guard cleared of raping woman during shift

Heaven nightclub security guard cleared of raping woman during shift  BBC

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7 d. ago Heaven security guard cleared of raping woman in his car near venue

Morenikeji Adewole, 47, of Dartford, Kent, had been charged with raping the 19-year-old in the early hours of November 1 last year.

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8 d. ago Anita Rose: Stamp marks on face 'made by the boots' of man on

Anita Rose, 57, was subjected to "numerous kicks, stamps and blows being delivered to her face, head and body", prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC told a trial at Ipswich Crown Court

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8 d. ago Young mother died after being knocked off motorcycle by 4×4, murder trial told

Alana Armstrong, 25, died after the incident involving a Land Rover Discovery and an electric motorbike in Pleasley, Derbyshire, in November 2024.

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8 d. ago Constance Marten's partner Mark Gordon is convicted rapist, Old Bailey baby manslaughter trial is told

Mark Gordon spent 22 years in prison for rape, burglary, and assault, trial told

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8 d. ago Heaven security guard ‘a proven liar’ who targeted drunk woman, rape trial told

Morenikeji Adewole, 47, of Dartford, Kent, denies raping the teenager in his car near the central London club on November 1 2024.

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1 week ago Diddy's former assistant Capricorn Clark breaks down in tears as she recalls terrifying threats by his staff

Diddy's former personal assistant told jurors at his trial that she was forced to take lie detector tests for five days and was threatened with being thrown in the East River if she failed.

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1 week ago London police detective told accused in Hockey Canada trial he had no plans to charge him in 2018

London police detective told accused in Hockey Canada trial he had no plans to charge him in 2018  The Globe and Mail

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1 week ago Heaven security guard accused of rape ‘was not permitted to work in UK’

Morenikeji Adewole, 47, from Dartford, Kent, is accused of raping a woman in his car near the nightclub in the early hours of November 1 2024.

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1 week ago Jury in Satchwell trial told to ‘consider carefully’ if accused telling truth

Richard Satchwell, of Grattan Street in Youghal, is accused of murdering his wife Tina between March 19 and 20 2017.

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1 week ago Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial LIVE updates: Erin Patterson reveals reason why she invited her in

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

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1 week ago Jury in Satchwell trial told to approach case ‘with open mind, without emotion’

Mr Justice Paul McDermott gave his charge to the jury on Monday.

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