Erin Patterson mushroom homicide trial LIVE updates: Deadly lunch survivor’s surprise transfer as courtroom is advised visitors’ verdict on how the fateful meal REALLY tasted

Korumburra Baptist Church treasurer Angela Child issued a observation which was once learn to the jury.

Ms Child mentioned she had a gathering with Ian Wilkinson simply hours after the fateful lunch.

She waited at their house for Ian and his spouse Heather to reach house.

When they arrived, Heather advised Ms Child they ‘had an attractive lunch’.

‘Delicious and wonderful,’ the jury was once advised.

‘She persevered to rave concerning the meal,’ Ms Child mentioned.

Ms Child added that neither appeared ill.

Church secretary Jennifer McPhee attended the similar assembly and showed they spoke of the ‘scrumptious meal’.

‘She playfully teased Ian about how much he had eaten,’ Ms McPhee said in her statement to the court.

Survivor of the fatal mushroom lunch Ian Wilkinson has returned to court and is sitting just metres from the woman accused of murdering his wife, Heather.

Mr Wilkinson yesterday gave evidence in the trial of Erin Patterson (pictured below), who is also accused of attempting to murder the Korumburra Baptist Church pastor.

The only guest to survive the lunch was excused yesterday by the court after his lengthy and emotional evidence concluded – but he has returned to hear today’s session.

The jury heard evidence from toxicology specialist Dr Mark Douglas, who suspected Don and Gail Patterson were suffering from death cap mushroom poisoning but did not have enough medical evidence to administer the antidote for the lethal fungi.

Dr Douglas, who was the toxicology registrar at Dandenong Hospital when Don and Gail attended, was told the patients had consumed a potentially deadly meal about midday on July 29, 2023.

‘That was the question was being put forward, could these symptoms be related to the meal,’ Dr Douglas said.

He was also informed that Ian and Heather Wilkinson had presented at Leongatha Hospital with similar symptons and eaten the same meal prepared by Erin Patterson, who today appeared in court wearing a pink shirt.

Dr Douglas was also informed that Gail ate about a third of the meal, however she and Don were transported to the Austin Health ICU.

The jury heard Gail had been told her sister and Ian were being wheeled into hospital as well.

Dr Douglas told the jury that Mr Wilkinson was alert and talking on arrival at Dandenong Hospital, but he was extremely nauseated and carrying a vomit bag.

‘He was constantly vomiting,’ he mentioned.

The jury heard Heather had additionally eaten the entire portion.

‘She said it was delicious,’ Dr Douglas mentioned.

Ian and Heather Wilkinson’s daughter Ruth Allison Dubois advised the jury she had identified Erin Patterson for 10 to 15 years however the had been handiest ‘acquaintances’.

Ms Dubois, the eldest daughter of 4 youngsters, showed she first met Erin when she began a courting with Simon Patterson, who’s Ms Dubois’ cousin.

‘I did not truly know her; sufficient to mention “Hi” in passing, that is it,’ Ms Dubois mentioned.

She advised the courtroom she attended the similar church as Erin and different contributors of her circle of relatives.

Ms Dubois mentioned her mom were with Gail on the church once they had been each approached by means of Erin Patterson about coming to lunch.

Ms Duois mentioned Erin advised her mom: ‘Ah, simply the 2 I used to be on the lookout for (to ask to lunch).’

She additionally advised the jury she had attended a meal together with her dad and mom and others the night time sooner than the fateful lunch, the place they ate meats and fruit and lemon cheesecake – however no mushrooms.

She mentioned no person fell sick following that meal.

Ms Dubois mentioned she controlled to talk together with her dad and mom at Dandenong Hospital sooner than they had been transferred to the Austin Hospital ICU in Melbourne.

She mentioned her dad and mom requested how Erin was once and had been fascinated by her well being. They requested if she was once OK or in search of clinical consideration.

Ian Wilkinson is pictured beneath enetring courtroom these days.

Don and Gail Patterson’s daughter Danielle Romanes has tearfully advised the jury of her dialog together with her dad and mom sooner than their deadly lunch at Erin Patterson’s house.

‘They said they had been invited to Erin’s area for lunch,’ Ms Romanes mentioned.

‘(Gail) said it was unusual that Heather and Ian (Wilkinson) had been invited because they hadn’t been invited to Erin’s sooner than.’

Ms Romanes mentioned she phoned her about 5pm at the day of the lunch and requested ‘the way it went’.

‘Mum said it went well,’ she advised the courtroom.

Ms Romanes broke down in tears when confirming her dad and mom ate pork Wellington.

‘It was too much for Mum, so Dad finished hers,’ she mentioned.

Mr Romanes mentioned her mom made no point out of being in poor health. She realized of her dad and mom’ sickness the next day to come when her brother advised her and their siblings in a textual content message that Don and Gail had been in sanatorium.

‘He mentioned that Mum and Dad had been in sanatorium… experiencing vomiting and diarrhea since middle of the night,’ she advised the courtroom.

‘He mentioned that Erin was once experiencing diarrhea however was once soldiering on at house.’

Ms Romanes additionally advised the jury she was once conscious about some other lunch in early 2023 when her dad and mom attended Erin’s house.

She mentioned her dad and mom didn’t say who was once provide on the previous lunch aside from citing they had been the one adults there.

‘They ate a pie of some sort,’ she mentioned.

Ms Ramones, who has identified Erin since 2005, mentioned neither of her dad and mom was sick after that lunch.

The courtroom heard that Erin and Ms Ramones had youngsters born 3 days aside they usually shared a ‘shut courting’ right through their pregnancies.

The defence prompt that Ms Ramones and her spouse had borrowed $400,000 from Erin to shop for a area in 2011.

‘I don’t imagine it was once 2011,’ she mentioned.

‘We had already purchased our home.’

However, Ms Ramones admitted the mortgage was once made to ‘lend a hand with the home’.

She mentioned it was once listed to inflation however no hobby was once charged.

Ms Ramones additionally mentioned Erin attended circle of relatives occasions and remained in a bunch chat chat at the Signal messaging app after her break up from her now-estranged husband Simon Patterson (pictured beneath leaving courtroom).

‘There was once no animosity,’ Mr Ramones mentioned.

The jury within the trial of Erin Patterson, who’s accused of 3 counts of homicide and one in all tried homicide after serving a dangerous mushroom-laden pork Wellington lunch, has heard how her visitors died in agony.

The deceased lunch visitors are Erin’s former parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson.

Pastor Ian Wilkinson (pictured beneath), who gave proof the day prior to this that he prayed for Erin after she advised her lunch visitors she had most cancers, additionally ate up the poisonous meal however survived after spending a number of agonising weeks in extensive care.

Yesterday, Monash Health junior physician Beth Morgan advised the jury she reviewed preliminary examinations taken when Don and Gail first arrived at Dandenong Hospital about 7.30pm on July 31.

She mentioned Don had indicators of metabolic acidosis – a situation which makes the blood extra acidic, as defined to the jury.

Dr Morgan additionally mentioned Don was once dropping iron thru his unabated vomiting and diarrhea.

She advised the jury Don was once significantly dehydrated, had extraordinary electrolyte readings and there was once ‘vital kidney injury at this level’.

The courtroom heard Don had 4 liver serve as assessments after arriving on the sanatorium and every one was once extraordinary.

Other clinical witnesses advised the courtroom that Don and Gail had suffered vomiting and diarrhea up till their deaths.

Earlier the day prior to this, lead defence barrister Colin Mandy SC tried to boost doubt over a key piece of proof that his shopper ate from smaller plate than her visitors.

The jury had previous heard proof that Erin Patterson ate from a small ‘orangy-tan’ plate whilst her visitors ate from 4 greater gray plates.