Erin Patterson’s defence lawyer Colin Mandy, SC, has been transferring in chronological order, asking his consumer to recall particulars from the day of the mushroom lunch and the way she felt bodily that night.
Now, he has shifted to the day after the lunch, asking Patterson a couple of journey to Tyabb to take her son to flying classes.
Patterson mentioned that on the time she nonetheless had signs, however they had been much less frequent. She advised the court docket she had taken some water, and probably one other ginger tea and drugs for her signs, earlier than setting off on the drive.
“I believed there was a giant likelihood it will end up OK,” she mentioned.
Nonetheless, Patterson mentioned that as they had been driving, she wanted to make use of the bathroom, so she stopped in a stretch of highway with some bush cowl earlier than the South Gippsland Freeway meets the Bass Freeway.
“I went off into the bush and went to the bathroom,” she mentioned. “I had diarrhoea.”
She mentioned she cleaned herself up with some tissues, put them in a canine bag and hit the highway once more, earlier than stopping at a BP station in Caldermeade to place the canine bag in a bathroom bin and get some meals.
“We had stopped there as a result of [the kids] mentioned they had been hungry,” she mentioned.
On the station, Patterson purchased a sandwich for her son and daughter, and a few bitter straps.
Patterson herself didn’t eat any of the meals, she advised the court docket.
On the way in which again, after the flying lesson was cancelled resulting from climate, Patterson mentioned they stopped by a doughnut van in Koo Wee Rup and he or she sat within the automobile.
There, Patterson mentioned, she gave her son her financial institution card and he bought some meals and a espresso for her. She mentioned she recalled asking him for a drink, and he purchased the espresso “out of behavior”.
Erin advised the court docket they drove house and once more she rushed to the bathroom.
“I didn’t need to eat something, I didn’t need to prepare dinner something, so I believed I’d give the children the leftovers that had been within the fridge,” she mentioned.
