Poison mushroom lunch visitor ‘had final conversation with paramedic who passed details onto the police’

One of three luncheon friends who died after consuming a beef Wellington with a poison mushroom had a last dialog with a paramedic – particulars of which have been handed on to police, a report claims.

Gail and Don Patterson, in addition to Gail’s sister Heather, died earlier this month after lunch at daughter-in-law Erin Patterson’s in Leongatha, Victoria.

Erin has denied deliberately poisoning the trio, in addition to Heather’s husband Ian, who’s preventing for his life in hospital whereas awaiting a liver transplant. Daily Mail Australia doesn’t recommend Erin is chargeable for the poisonings.

A supply near the police investigation into the deaths instructed the Herald Sun that one of many three individuals who died had a last speak with a paramedic.

That paramedic felt it essential to go on what had been mentioned to the police, the supply claims.

It isn’t recognized what the lunch visitor mentioned to the paramedics.

Ms. Patterson, a stay-at-home mother, says she purchased the supposedly poisonous mould from a grocery store and an Asian grocery retailer, and was herself hospitalized after consuming lunch.

Her youngsters didn’t attend lunch and went to the flicks as an alternative. They ate leftovers the following day, however the mushrooms had been scraped off as a result of they don’t prefer it.

Ms Patterson instructed police she additionally turned unwell after consuming the meal, and that whereas she was in hospital her ex-husband Simon accused her of poisoning his mother and father, Gail and Don.

She mentioned she was “talking about the food hydrator” she used to arrange the meal when her ex-husband requested, “Is that what you used to poison them?”

In a panic, Erin has admitted that she then dumped the dehydrator at a close-by landfill.

Food dehydrators are used to dry out mushrooms earlier than they’re utilized in beef boots.

The dehydrator was discovered by police, and a supply near the investigation mentioned that Age Police performed forensic exams on the dehydrator – which was discovered at a close-by tip.

In a written assertion despatched to Victoria Police on Friday – and obtained by the ABC – Ms Patterson expressed her ache that individuals are “judgmental so quickly”.

“I now want to clear the record as I have become extremely stressed and overwhelmed by the deaths of my loved ones,” Ms Patterson mentioned.

“I hope this statement can help in some way. I believe that if people understood the background better, they wouldn’t be so quick to judge.

“I am devastated now to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness of my loved ones. I really want to reiterate that I had absolutely no reason to hurt these people I loved.”

She had beforehand given an interview with out remark to police at the beginning of their investigation, blaming the police for her choice because it was a “terrifying and terrifying” expertise.

Mrs. Patterson meant to make use of the meal as a reconciliation together with her estranged husband Simon, however he backed out on the final minute.

A neighbor of Gail and Don Patterson instructed Daily Mail Australia that Simon had been residing along with his mother and father after splitting up along with his spouse, however had moved out late final yr.

“Sunday morning we saw the ambulance pull into their driveway and we didn’t know what was going on,” he mentioned.

“They had been very mobile people. They were always busy with their own lawns. They were quite active. Don went for a walk every morning.’

The neighbour, who declined to be named, described his neighbors as nice people, who likely kept in touch with their son’s ex-wife even after the couple’s divorce.

“He was a pretty good kind of person who wouldn’t hold that grudge. I don’t know why they were there, but probably to see their grandchildren,’ he said.

News of the tragic deaths was the talk of the small rural community, with allegations that in June 2022 Simon may have had a mysterious serious stomach ailment.

He fell into a coma and spent 21 days in ICU in a case that baffled doctors.

An Austin Hospital source told Daily Mail Australia Mr Wilkinson is expected to need an urgent liver transplant and is likely to have extensive damage to his kidneys as well.

“I suspect he’ll get out of this because if they thought he was that unwell and they just needed the best intensive care, I think he’d be in The Alfred. He’s probably getting a transplant. There’s a chance he’s already had one, but no one will tell you because it could identify the donor,” the supply mentioned.