Mushroom murder trial in final stages
The Defence has finished its closing arguments to the jury in the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson.
50 year old Ms Patterson has been accused of deliberately poisoning four of her in-laws with a lunch containing death cap mushrooms in 2023.
She has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and one of attempted murder.
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