Doctor's call to cops on mushroom cook played in court
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A doctor’s worried phone call to the police regarding Erin Patterson, who left the hospital against medical advice, has been revealed to the public for the first time.

Jurors heard from 10 witnesses on Wednesday, including family members and doctors, as the mushroom cook’s trial in regional Victoria continues.

Patterson faces three murder charges, having pleaded not guilty, related to serving a meal with death-cap mushrooms to her estranged husband’s family on July 29, 2023.

Dr Chris Webster.(Jason South)

Earlier on Wednesday, the children of the four lunch guests spoke about seeing their loved ones before they died.

Don and Gail’s daughter Anna Terrington sobbed as she recalled going to her mother’s bedside at Dandenong Hospital on July 30.

“I took her to the bathroom many times,” she said, between tears.

Her brother Matthew Patterson arrived at the hospital the following day and found Don was in intensive care and being questioned by toxicology staff.

He called Erin Patterson to ask where the mushrooms were from and she told him from Woolies and a Chinese grocer.

The trial before Justice Christopher Beale will continue on Thursday.

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