Erin Patterson mushroom homicide trial LIVE updates: Doubt forged on cybercrime officer’s laptop investigation

Victoria Police Cybercrime Squad senior virtual forensics officer Shamen Fox-Henry has had his credentials examined in courtroom.

Erin Patterson, who’s dressed in a sage inexperienced jumper, listened as her barrister Colin Mandy SC put it to Mr Fox-Henry he handiest had restricted {qualifications} on the time he analysed gadgets seized from the accused killer’s Leongatha house in August 2023.

Mr Fox-Henry, who the jury heard prior has analysed gadgets together with a pc and Samsung cell phone connected to the case, agreed he had won extra {qualifications} since he was once first passed the gadgets.

Mr Fox-Henry agreed he was once ‘following directions from friends on the way to do it (analyse the pc)’.

Lead defence barrister Colin Mandy SC has pressed Mr Fox-Henry on a picture of a dehydrator allegedly discovered on a Samsung pill seized from Patterson’s house.

Mr Fox-Henry agreed it wasn’t conceivable to mention when the picture was once taken via the instrument, or if the sender interacted with the photographs at the instrument.

He additionally could not say whether or not the photographs have been won via somebody else.

Mr Fox-Henry stated the historical past of the dehydrator ‘thumbnail’ symbol discovered at the Samsung pill was once ‘very restricted’.

The jury has prior to now heard proof a meals particles samples taken from a dehydrator Patterson dumped at a tip examined sure for dying cap mushrooms.

Mr Fox-Henry stated he permitted the information he detected had been from job at the laptop which was once generated in a three-minute duration.

This incorporated a talk over with to the iNaturalist website and a talk over with to The Korumburra Middle Hotel site.

Mr Mandy SC (pictured) highlighted the jury had heard proof the Korumburra pub seek incorporated a Google Chrome autofill acquire.

Mr Fox-Henry stated he did not test the information to determine whether or not or now not the autofill settings had been to be had to more than one customers who had get admission to to the pc.

The jury heard investigators can tag artefacts of pastime generated in an Axiom document with the time period ‘proof’.

Mr Fox-Henry additionally agreed he may have carried out a extra actual research of the seized Cooler Master PC to seek out details about autocomplete web searches.

He stated virtual forensics officials equivalent to himself are now and again requested to trace ‘person job’.

Mr Fox-Henry advised the jury he used a write-blocker to analyse a pc seized from Erin Patterson’s house.

The jury heard a write-blocker is a {hardware} instrument which stops forensic officials from ‘writing or converting knowledge’ on a difficult pressure.

Mr Fox-Henry showed he extensively utilized a Magnet Axiom virtual forensics instrument to analyse the instrument which ‘spat out a document’.

However, he stated he did not analyse the contents of the ‘Axiom document’ as soon as it was once generated.

The jury has prior to now heard proof {that a} seek of the iNaturalist site the place dying cap msuhroom sightings have been highlighted had been discovered at the laptop.

Mr Fox-Henry additionally admitted he was once ‘not able to mention’ the extractions from the pc had been carried out as it should be.

Erin Patterson, 50, is accused of murdering her in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, after allegedly serving them a pork Wellington lunch with dying cap mushrooms.

Patterson could also be accused of making an attempt to homicide Heather’s husband, pastor Ian Wilkinson (pictured under), who survived the lunch after spending a number of weeks in an in depth care unit.

The courtroom heard Patterson’s estranged husband, Simon, was once additionally invited, however did not attend.

Witnesses advised the jury Patterson ate her serving from a smaller and other colored plate than the ones of her visitors, who ate from 4 gray plates.

Patterson advised government she purchased dried mushrooms from an unnamed Asian retailer within the Monash house of Melbourne, however well being inspectors may just to find no proof of this.

The well being division declared the dying cap poisoning was once ‘remoted’ to Patterson’s fatal lunch.

Multiple witnesses, together with Simon Patterson, Ian Wilkinson and different members of the family, have given emotion-charged proof to the jury.

Medical personnel have advised the jury of the painful signs the death lunch visitors and Mr Wilkinson suffered.

An professional witness advised the courtroom dying cap mushrooms had been detected in particles taken from a dehydrater Patterson had dumped at a neighborhood tip.

Telecommunications professional Dr Matthew Sorell additionally advised the jury Patterson’s telephone was once detected close to spaces in Outtrim and Loch the place dying cap mushrooms have been noticed.

Victoria Police Cybercrime Squad senior virtual forensics officer Shamen Fox-Henry stated he discovered proof of a dying cap mushroom on knowledge from a pc seized from Patterson’s Leongatha house on August 5, 2023.

On Friday, Austin Health Intensive Care Director Professor Stephen Warrillow advised the jury he was once on the health facility in July 2023 when the dying cap poisoned lunch visitors had been transferred to his care.

Professor Warrillow stated all sufferers won intense remedy and Don and Ian won liver transplants.

Erin Patterson vented about her in-laws to on-line pals within the months main as much as the fateful lunch on July 29, 2023 that claimed their lives.

In the messages, Patterson described her in-laws as a ‘misplaced reason’ and exclaimed ‘f**okay them’.

Patterson confirmed no emotion in the back of court docket 4 of the Latrobe Valley Magistrates’ Court in Victoria’s east, the place her Supreme Court listening to is being held.

Mr Fox-Henry (pictured under) was once in a position to get well the Facebook messages from a Samsung telephone seized via police upon Patterson’s arrest in August 2023.

Some of the messages to her on-line pals learn:

‘Simon’s dad contacted me this morning to mention that he and Gail had attempted to speak to Simon in regards to the issues I raised and to get ‘his aspect’ however he refused to discuss it rather than to sign he disagreed with what I stated.

‘Beyond that he wont discuss it. So Don stated they cant adjudicate if they do not know either side and Simon wont give his aspect. So he stated all he can ask is that Simon and I am getting in combination to hope for the youngsters.

‘This circle of relatives I swear to f**king God.’