The next morning, a doctor from another hospital called him to say the two other lunch guests — Erin's parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson — had suspected poisoning from death cap mushrooms.

By then, medical staff had diagnosed her guests as suffering death cap poisoning.Erin Patterson told authorities that she had cooked with a mixture of fresh mushrooms bought from a supermarket and ...

Doctors said the symptoms matched death cap mushroom poisoning, which forensic tests later confirmed. The prosecution alleges that Ms Patterson, 50, deliberately poisoned the lunch guests after ...