What the jury saw and heard

They are the videos, photographs, receipts, and text messages that built a mountain of evidence too high for Erin Patterson to climb.

As she left court a murderer on Monday, parts of the evidence the prosecution collected was released to the press for the first time.

There was her police interview. Then the CCTV footage of Patterson arriving with what she told staff was diarrhoea, sporting white pants, before leaving Leongatha hospital in under 10 minutes.

Then there was the triple zero call a panicked doctor made when he realised Erin Patterson had left the hospital. The medic was so concerned that Patterson may have eaten death cap mushrooms, too, that he called the police, asking them to track her down.

Next was the CCTV of the killer walking into the Caldermeade BP a day after the lunch, again wearing white pants, telling the jury she had just defecated on the side of the road and needed to drop off dirty tissues in a bin.

After she was released from hospital, the killer also dumped a food dehydrator with traces of poison still in it, at the local tip with a receipt released to the press alongside photographs of the kitchen appliance.

Also released for the first time on Monday were screenshots of messages from a Patterson family group chat, the toxicology results of those who died from the lunch meal she cooked, and phone records the prosecution used to place her in areas they say death caps grew.

Photos of the beef Wellington leftovers

Known as ‘Exhibit 26’ and ‘Exhibit 15’, jurors were shown images of the leftovers from the fatal beef Wellington lunch. They included annotated photos taken during toxicology analysis at Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM) and a photo received by Dr Muldoon from Dr Veronica Foote.

‘They’re the only family that I’ve got’: Erin Patterson’s police interview

Read the full transcript of the police interview with Erin Patterson on August 5, 2023.

‘She just got up and left?’: The triple zero recording

The triple zero recording Dr Chris Webster made after Erin Patterson discharged herself against medical advice from Leongatha Hospital on July 31, 2023.

Erin Patterson at Monash Hospital

The jury was shown CCTV footage of Erin Patterson at Monash Hospital on 31 July 2023.

Mushrooms dehydrating in Erin Patterson’s home

A photo from one of Erin Mushroom’s seized electronic devices of mushrooms dehydrating on scales in her home.

First photos of where the lunch was held

Photo of Erin Patterson’s dining and kitchen area, where she served the beef Wellingtons to her lunch guests Don and Gail Patterson, and Ian and Heather Wilkinson.