1 hour ago Erin Patterson trial live: mushroom cook refused to be assessed by doctors in hospital cubicle, court hears

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Don and Gail had dined at Erin’s before, court hearsAnna Terrington also recalls a lunch that her parents, Don and Gail, had at Erin’s house in 2023 – before the fateful mushroom meal. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: mushroom cook discharged herself from hospital after ‘five minutes’, court hears in triple zero audio

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Don and Gail had dined at Erin’s before, court hearsAnna Terrington also recalls a lunch that her parents, Don and Gail, had at Erin’s house in 2023 – before the fateful mushroom meal. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: no record of cancer diagnosis for Erin Patterson on state’s register, health official says

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Don and Gail had dined at Erin’s before, court hearsAnna Terrington also recalls a lunch that her parents, Don and Gail, had at Erin’s house in 2023 – before the fateful mushroom meal. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: daughter of alleged mushroom lunch victims emotional as she remembers parents’ final days in hospital

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Don and Gail had dined at Erin’s before, court hearsAnna Terrington also recalls a lunch that her parents, Don and Gail, had at Erin’s house in 2023 – before the fateful mushroom meal. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: witnesses to continue giving evidence on day seven of mushroom cook’s murder trial

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?By 6.30am the following day – 31st July – Morgan advised Dr Mark Douglas that Don’s condition had worsened and Gail was showing “similar progress”.Douglas, who was on call, advised Morgan to immediately administer silibinin – the antidote to death cap mushroom poisoning.What I was told was that Don was quite unwell, both in his clinical state and lab state... Gail was not as unwell as Don. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Husband of Brit woman 'murdered' in France slams her 'complete betrayal'

Mum-of-four Karen Carter, 65, was found dead outside her property in Tremolat, southwestern France after suffering multiple stab wounds - her husband said police discovered she was having an affair

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18 h. ago Man, 49, charged with murdering woman and trying to kill five others including child after 'hit and run attacks' in Rochdale

Keith Micheal Knight, 49, of no fixed abode, was arrested after a black BMW was driven into people at two locations in Rochdale, Greater Manchester on Saturday afternoon.

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20 h. ago Man charged with murder and attempted murder after collisions in Rochdale which left woman dead

Keith Micheal Knight will appear in court today

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23 h. ago French village where British woman Karen Carter was fatally stabbed is scene of cult murder film

Karen Carter, 65, died in the Dordogne village of Trémolat

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27 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: medical staff reveal differing severities of illness of each guest at fateful mushroom lunch

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Ian Wilkinson says late wife Heather ‘fairly excited’ about lunchThe examination now turns to the invite for the mushroom lunch.There was no reason for the lunch.... We were very happy to be invited. It seemed like maybe our relationship with Erin was going to improve.Just seemed like a normal person to me... when we met, seemed quite friendly. We never had arguments or disputes.She just seemed like an ordinary person. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: mushroom cook plated all beef wellingtons despite family offering to help, only survivor of lethal lunch tells court

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Ian Wilkinson says late wife Heather ‘fairly excited’ about lunchThe examination now turns to the invite for the mushroom lunch.There was no reason for the lunch.... We were very happy to be invited. It seemed like maybe our relationship with Erin was going to improve.Just seemed like a normal person to me... when we met, seemed quite friendly. We never had arguments or disputes.She just seemed like an ordinary person. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: mushroom cook was ‘very reluctant’ for guests to look in pantry, surviving guest of lethal lunch tells court

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Ian Wilkinson says late wife Heather ‘fairly excited’ about lunchThe examination now turns to the invite for the mushroom lunch.There was no reason for the lunch.... We were very happy to be invited. It seemed like maybe our relationship with Erin was going to improve.Just seemed like a normal person to me... when we met, seemed quite friendly. We never had arguments or disputes.She just seemed like an ordinary person. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago Woman charged with murder following horror stabbing in flat pictured for the first time

Liam Collier tragically died despite the best efforts of paramedics after the incident.

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44 h. ago Husband’s shock over affair claims linked to British wife murdered in France

Karen Carter, 65, was stabbed eight times and killed on her driveway in the French village of Trémolat last week

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46 h. ago Wife’s affair a ‘complete betrayal’, says husband of British woman murdered in France

Karen Carter, 65, was stabbed eight times and killed on her driveway in the French village of Trémolat last week

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50 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: mushroom cook described estranged husband as ‘coercive’ and in

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Our justice and courts reporter, Nino Bucci, was in the court room in Morwell last week for the first week of Erin Patterson’s murder trial.Catch up on his report on the first week of the trial: Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: estranged husband Simon gives evidence in mushroom murder trial

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Nanette Rogers SC is now re-examining Simon.Simon says his mother agreed to not read the messages sent from Erin to reduce anxiety she had been diagnosed with encephalitis. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: estranged husband Simon to resume evidence in mushroom murder trial

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?The jury has entered the courtroom for day five of the trial.Erin Patterson’s lawyer, Colin Mandy SC, is continuing his cross-examination of Simon Patterson, Erin’s estranged husband.The court was shown text messages where Simon and Erin communicated about her “forgotten” invitation to her mother-in-law’s 70th birthday. Simon said at this point in time there was “tension” in Erin’s relationship with his parents and between the pair.Simon told the court Erin had “struggled” with mental illness and postnatal depression after the birth of their first child.Simon said his estranged wife “hates” hospitals as he was asked about her discharging herself from Leongatha hospital against medical advice following the lunch. Continue ...

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55 h. ago Murder charge laid over death of woman initially thought to have accidentally drowned while kayaking

A man has been arrested and charged for murder and fraud over a horror incident that happened four years ago.

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56 h. ago Husband of British mother, 65, who was knifed to death in French village says her affair is a 'betrayal'

Karen Carter, 65, was found dead on her property in the village of Trémolat, east of Bordeaux, after returning from a night out on Tuesday, April 29.

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