An Australian mum who is accused of poisoning her family with toxic mushrooms told a courtroom, ‘exotic mushrooms have more flavour’.

Erin Patterson is facing three murder charges after her former in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, died in July 2023 after eating a beef wellington she had made.

Her murder trial is ongoing in Morwell, Victoria, an hour north of her hometown of Leongatha, where the deaths occurred.

In the trial today, she said she was drawn to ‘exotic mushrooms’ while foraging, because they ‘just taste more interesting, have more flavour.’

The amateur chef added that she often ‘experimented’ with mushrooms she foraged, before cooking them with butter.

‘They tasted good and I didn’t get sick,’ she said. She also shared her long-standing

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