‘Important you’re all there’: Erin Patterson urged husband to reconsider skipping mushroom lunch, murder trial hears

Estranged couple’s text messages in lead up to fatal ‘special meal’ revealed in Victorian court as Simon Patterson gives evidence

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Erin Patterson said she spent a “small fortune” on buying eye fillet steak for her “special meal” of beef wellingtons, and was really disappointed her estranged husband had cancelled the night before the lunch, a Victorian court has heard.

Simon Patterson has started his evidence in Patterson’s murder trial, detailing the deterioration in their relationship about the paying of child support.

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