Overview

• Patterson’s daughter recounted in a police interview that she accompanied her mother to an unnamed Asian store where she allegedly purchased dried mushrooms
• An expert witness told the court that death cap spores were identified in debris from a Sunbeam dehydrator Patterson had dumped at a local waste tip
• Victoria Police Cybercrime Squad’s senior digital forensics officer testified that data from a computer seized at Patterson’s Leongatha home contained evidence of death cap mushrooms
• Telecommunications expert Dr Matthew Sorell said Patterson’s phone was detected near Outtrim and Loch in Gippsland, sites where wild death cap mushrooms have been found
• Authorities found no records to support Patterson’s claim that she bought dried mushrooms from the Melbourne Asian store she named