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Erin Patterson told online friends she was ‘hiding powdered mushrooms in everything’, court hears: Trial day five, as it happened

Marta Pascual Juanola and Erin Pearson
Updated ,first published

Key Posts

Erin regularly used mushrooms in her cooking: online friend
‘A bit excited’: Erin’s posts about food dehydrator
‘Controlling, coercive’: How Erin described Simon to her online friends
Simon puzzled by beef Wellington lunch invitation
The message Simon never wanted his mother to read – and why it still haunts him
‘I foolishly trusted him’: The message that laid bare Erin’s sense of financial betrayal

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