The woman who cooked the mushroom food poisoning death said she bought the mushrooms at the grocery store, it turns out./mdurson/iStockphoto/Getty Images
2023.08.16 Wed posted at 12:58 JST
(CNN) A woman who served lunch to three people who died from mushroom food poisoning in Victoria, southeastern Australia, told police she bought the mushrooms at a grocery store and a supermarket. explained. Public broadcaster ABC reported.
Erin Patterson, 48, told police she was “overwhelmed with extreme stress” following the death of a relative, ABC reported on Thursday.
Victoria police said Patterson invited four of her former relatives, including her estranged husband’s parents-in-law, to lunch at her home in Leongasa, Victoria, on July 29.
Three of the four people who were invited died from food poisoning caused by the highly poisonous mushroom “Tamago amanita”. The other one is in critical condition at the hospital. The case has been investigated by the Victorian Police Homicide Squad.
But Patterson claims the mushrooms in question were dried mushrooms he bought at an Asian grocery store in Melbourne a few months ago and button mushrooms he recently bought at a supermarket. He explained that he used both mushrooms in the meat dish he served for lunch, emphasizing, “I have no reason to harm the people I care about.”
Ian Wilkinson (right), who is in critical condition and is currently hospitalized, with his late wife Heather.
No arrests or charges have been filed for the three deaths so far, and last week, in tears, Patterson told local media outside his home that he had done nothing wrong.
Police initially said Patterson’s two children were present at lunch but did not eat the food in question.
But according to ABC, Patterson explained that the children were away at lunchtime and that he fed them leftovers that night, but removed mushrooms from their meals because they didn’t like them.
Food poisoning incident that killed 3 people Claimed that the woman who cooked “mushrooms was purchased at the store” Australia
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2023-08-16 03:58:00
