Mushroom Trial

Cold hands warm hearts for visiting media at Korumburra Baptist Church

THE first Sunday church service at the Korumburra Baptist Church, on Sunday, July 13, after the verdict the previous Monday, was always likely to attract some media attention. However, given the 252 journalists and media outlets recorded on the...

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Michael Giles

13 Jul 2025

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‘Not our video to give’, says South Gippsland Shire

MYSTERY surrounds how media outlets got their hands on explosive new CCTV video footage, from the Koonwarra Transfer Station, which appears to show mushroom murderer, Erin Patterson, dumping rubbish at the tip little more than 30 minutes after her...

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Michael Giles

12 Jul 2025

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After a thousand useless words here’s a picture that brings peace

IT WAS a quiet day in Korumburra on Wednesday. Kelly’s Bakery was doing a brisk trade around lunchtime. People were in and out of the post office for parcels and their Tatts tickets. And Gonzalo the artist from Fish Creek was up on his scaffolding...

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Michael Giles

10 Jul 2025

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Social media storm over doctor’s ‘sociopathic nut bag’ remarks

A STORM has erupted on social media in the wake of the candid remarks by Leongatha medico, Dr Chris Webster, about triple mushroom murderer Erin Patterson. Variously referring to Mrs Patterson, in print and TV interviews both here and overseas...

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Michael Giles

09 Jul 2025

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Mushoom murder video: What really happened on the way to Tyabb and what didn’t

A LOT was made during the 11-week mushroom murder trial at Morwell of diarrhoea, unfortunately. Some of it tragic, some of it fabricated. Watery stools, explosive diarrhoea, frequency, consistency, inspections by nurses, analysis. Whether one such...

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Michael Giles

09 Jul 2025

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Erin Patterson: A crime what she put them through

ONE of the heroes of the health response to the medical mayhem caused by Erin Patterson, when she poisoned her four lunch guests that day, was young, nightshift registrar at Dandenong Hospital, Dr Beth Morgan. Of course, they were all heroes in the...

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Michael Giles

08 Jul 2025

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Evil in our midst: Jury finds Erin Patterson guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty

LEONGATHA mother of two, Erin Patterson, has been found guilty of three counts of murder and one of attempted murder after a marathon trial in the Supreme Court at Morwell. The jury returned its verdict on day six of its deliberations, on Monday...

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Michael Giles

07 Jul 2025

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Mushrooms, media, Morwell… the marathon murder trial goes on

IT’S Thursday, so it must be the fourth day of jury deliberations in the marathon mushroom murder trial at Morwell. There’s three marquees set up in the forecourt of the justice complex off Commercial Road. Photographers hover around the...

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Michael Giles

03 Jul 2025

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Still, we wait… but here’s what happens when the verdict comes

IT’S day three of the jury’s deliberations in the Erin Patterson murder trial at Morwell. But by lunchtime on Wednesday, July 2, there’s still no verdict and no questions either from a jury that has spent two nights sequestered in a Latrobe...

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Michael Giles

02 Jul 2025

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Slow, wet, dark and gloomy as the wait goes on at Morwell

IT’S A slow, cold, wet day in Morwell today as the jury continues its deliberations for a second day in the Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts. Where there was an intense burst of media activity in the sunshine...

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Michael Giles

01 Jul 2025

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Huge interest in Erin Patterson verdict as jury retires

THE jury has retired to consider its verdict in the marathon mushroom murder trial at Morwell. They were released by the judge, Justice Christopher Beale at 1.02pm on Monday this week, June 30, but not before he delivered a full morning of...

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Michael Giles

30 Jun 2025

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Erin Patterson’s good character worth something, says Justice Beale

ERIN Patterson is a 50-year-old woman without a criminal history. Turns out good character is something you can fall back on. Over the course of many years, the court was told this week, she has been caring, generous and loving to her estranged...

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Michael Giles

24 Jun 2025

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He said, she said… mushroom murder trial wraps up in Morwell

IT’S effectively the last day of the so-called mushroom murder trial in the Victorian town of Morwell that has so captured the attention of people worldwide. After a marathon eight weeks of hearings, all of the evidence is in and this week the...

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Michael Giles

19 Jun 2025