Australia mushroom trial live: Erin Patterson continues giving evidence on day 25 of her triple murder trial

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder over a fatal 2023 beef wellington lunch. Follow liveErin says when they separated permanently in 2015, they wrote down the assets they owned and “divided it down the middle”.She says no lawyers were involved.In the immediate aftermath ... it was difficult, as it had been in other separations. That only lasted a handful of weeks. We went back to just being really good friends.I didn’t want to be separated but I felt there was no choice.Our primary problem was if we had a disagreement or any kind of conflict we didn’t seem to be able to talk about it in a wayIt was just the living together that didn’t work.It never changed. I was just their daughter in law and they just continued to love me.It was cramped in that all three of us were in the one room but it didn’t matter because Don and Gail were so welcoming to us and just liked having [our son] there ... It was a really good experience. Continue reading...

Australia mushroom trial live: Erin Patterson continues giving evidence on day 25 of her triple murder trial

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder over a fatal 2023 beef wellington lunch. Follow live

Erin says when they separated permanently in 2015, they wrote down the assets they owned and “divided it down the middle”.

She says no lawyers were involved.

In the immediate aftermath ... it was difficult, as it had been in other separations. That only lasted a handful of weeks. We went back to just being really good friends.

I didn’t want to be separated but I felt there was no choice.

Our primary problem was if we had a disagreement or any kind of conflict we didn’t seem to be able to talk about it in a way

It was just the living together that didn’t work.

It never changed. I was just their daughter in law and they just continued to love me.

It was cramped in that all three of us were in the one room but it didn’t matter because Don and Gail were so welcoming to us and just liked having [our son] there ... It was a really good experience.

Continue reading...