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- 0:02Speaker 1: Nine podcasts.
- 0:04Speaker 2: In this episode, the informant gives evidence about voones police
- 0:07Speaker 2: say are connected to Aaron Patterson.
- 0:09Speaker 1: He's also questioned on the.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Accused killer's medical history and evidence of googling cancer symptoms.
- 0:16Speaker 2: The court has also shown her shopping transactions in the
- 0:19Speaker 2: lead up to the fatal lunch.
- 0:21Speaker 3: Victoria's mushroom mystery.
- 0:23Speaker 4: The mushroom lunch that claimed three lives.
- 0:25Speaker 5: An Australian family's meal is now the center of a
- 0:28Speaker 5: homicide investigation.
- 0:30Speaker 1: The bizarre tragedy now grabbing global headlines.
- 0:33Speaker 5: Aaron Patterson's alleged victims died after eating a family lunch
- 0:36Speaker 5: she'd serve them at her home.
- 0:38Speaker 2: I cannot think of another investigation that has generated this
- 0:42Speaker 2: level of media and public interest. Four of the guests
- 0:46Speaker 2: of that lunch were much loved members of this church.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Only one will ever return.
- 0:51Speaker 5: People are feeling very heavy with having lost such wonderful people.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Today, Aaron Patterson remained here inside her home.
- 1:00Speaker 1: She's continued to plead her innocence in a court room
- 1:05Speaker 1: in Country Victoria.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Aaron Patterson is on trial accused of using death cap
- 1:09Speaker 2: mushrooms to kill. She's pleaded not guilty to murdering three
- 1:13Speaker 2: of her former in laws and attempting to kill a fourth,
- 1:16Speaker 2: the town's church pastor. It's up to the jurors to
- 1:19Speaker 2: decide what happened when Patterson's loved ones sat down to eat. Now,
- 1:24Speaker 2: the jury has been taken through quite a bit of
- 1:27Speaker 2: different topics of evidence with the informant, Detective Stephen epping Stall,
- 1:32Speaker 2: which people will have heard a little bit of in
- 1:34Speaker 2: our last episode talking about the police interview. But we're
- 1:37Speaker 2: going to go through quite a few different elements that
- 1:40Speaker 2: he's been touching on in his evidence with both the
- 1:43Speaker 2: prosecution and the defense, and we'll take people through that
- 1:46Speaker 2: in sort of topic order.
- 1:48Speaker 5: Yeah, the jury was told Aaron Patterson was charged on
- 1:51Speaker 5: the second of November twenty twenty three.
- 1:53Speaker 6: This was just after a.
- 1:55Speaker 5: Second search warrant was executed on her house. We've heard
- 1:58Speaker 5: during the evidence from Steph eppenste that a first search
- 2:01Speaker 5: warrant was executed on her Lee and Gatha home around
- 2:03Speaker 5: the fifth of August twenty twenty three, and then in
- 2:06Speaker 5: November we heard police returned because they were continuing to
- 2:08Speaker 5: look for more items, so they had more items, more
- 2:11Speaker 5: electronic devices on that search warrant. When they returned a
- 2:14Speaker 5: second time, but then ultimately Aaron Patterson was charged soon
- 2:18Speaker 5: after that second search warrant, and.
- 2:19Speaker 2: We'll touch on some more parts of that search warrant
- 2:23Speaker 2: and various elements around the electronic devices in this episode.
- 2:27Speaker 2: But what's also been touched on by Steven Eppingstall is
- 2:30Speaker 2: there's been some CCTV played to the jury from outside
- 2:33Speaker 2: a subway store in Lee and Gather and the jury
- 2:36Speaker 2: has been told that this was the night following the lunch.
- 2:39Speaker 2: While Aaron Patterson had given it, it's come through in
- 2:42Speaker 2: other people's evidence that she had been taking her son's
- 2:45Speaker 2: friend home that night before taking him to the subway,
- 2:49Speaker 2: and Stephen Eppingstall mentioned in his evidence that you could
- 2:51Speaker 2: see her son walking in and then back out and waiting,
- 2:54Speaker 2: and it was said to him by the prosecution there's
- 2:57Speaker 2: a missing eleven minutes where the car the red card
- 2:59Speaker 2: is appears before it comes back. When he was asked
- 3:01Speaker 2: about that, Stephen Apingstall said, yes, we weren't able to
- 3:04Speaker 2: track where the car went in that time. We'd gone
- 3:07Speaker 2: and collected this CCTV, but we weren't able to see
- 3:09Speaker 2: where it went. And the prosecution touched on the fact
- 3:12Speaker 2: that another witness, a child protection worker, had said Aaron
- 3:15Speaker 2: Patterson told her that that night she'd also gone to Woolworth's.
- 3:18Speaker 2: But Stephen Eppingstall, as he said in his evidence, they
- 3:20Speaker 2: weren't able to verify exactly where the car went over
- 3:23Speaker 2: those eleven minutes. There was another element that was also
- 3:26Speaker 2: clarified by the detective. He was asked about the video
- 3:29Speaker 2: statement that Aaron Patterson's daughter made. Now, initially he confirmed
- 3:34Speaker 2: that yes, in that what the jury has seen, this
- 3:36Speaker 2: pre recorded bit of evidence, that girl had said no
- 3:39Speaker 2: when she was asked if she'd ever been to an
- 3:41Speaker 2: Asian grocery store with her mum. But he then clarified
- 3:45Speaker 2: that there was a change to what she had said
- 3:47Speaker 2: sort of closer to the trial.
- 3:48Speaker 5: And on the eve of the trial, Penny, we were
- 3:51Speaker 5: told that the child was asked to review her video statement,
- 3:54Speaker 5: a video recorded statement, and in fact that she said
- 3:57Speaker 5: no when talking to that support worker the scene and
- 4:00Speaker 5: time just before the trial. She did have a memory
- 4:02Speaker 5: of attending it Asian food shop with her mother for
- 4:05Speaker 5: cooking reasons.
- 4:06Speaker 2: Yeah, and so when we're talking about these shops, there's
- 4:09Speaker 2: been a number of other shopping elements brought up throughout
- 4:12Speaker 2: Stephen Eppingstall's evidence, and we're going to go through that
- 4:14Speaker 2: sort of as one topic as the jury heard it
- 4:17Speaker 2: really at this stage. So he was taken by the
- 4:20Speaker 2: prosecution through Aaron Patterson's visits to Woolworth's in.
- 4:24Speaker 1: Lee and Gatha.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Now the jury has heard that Aaron Patterson through other
- 4:28Speaker 2: people's evidence. They've recalled her telling them that she purchased
- 4:31Speaker 2: the majority of the ingredients for this lunch from that
- 4:34Speaker 2: local Woolworths prior to the.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Lunch on the twenty ninth of July.
- 4:38Speaker 2: And Steven Eppingstall gave evidence that he then reviewed transactions
- 4:42Speaker 2: from Aaron Patterson between the twenty third and twenty eighth
- 4:46Speaker 2: of July, and that he did that through looking at
- 4:48Speaker 2: her Woolworth's rewards card. And there was a bit of
- 4:50Speaker 2: an explanation about that.
- 4:52Speaker 5: Yeah, he was explaining that that was a way that
- 4:53Speaker 5: they could see the list of the exact items that
- 4:56Speaker 5: had been purchased. Now this was a self serve checkout
- 4:58Speaker 5: on all occasions, he was explaining to the jury. And
- 5:01Speaker 5: then he was asked to read through the items that
- 5:04Speaker 5: were on the list for each of those shopping visits.
- 5:07Speaker 5: And we heard that Aaron Patterson was allegedly purchasing lots
- 5:11Speaker 5: of pastry, different types of pastry, puff pastry and frozen
- 5:14Speaker 5: feelings pastry.
- 5:15Speaker 6: We also heard that.
- 5:16Speaker 5: There was a number of different packets of fresh mushrooms
- 5:21Speaker 5: on those consecutive days that had been purchased. We also
- 5:24Speaker 5: heard that there was mashed potato, There was beans and
- 5:28Speaker 5: also onions, yeah, and beef.
- 5:30Speaker 2: Steaks or were listed in those transactions as well. Now,
- 5:33Speaker 2: to put a sort of a bit of a visual
- 5:35Speaker 2: element to it for the jury, this was a huge
- 5:37Speaker 2: amount of information in columns and all written down as
- 5:41Speaker 2: different transactions over different days of this week, but the
- 5:44Speaker 2: areas that the jury attention was being brought to and
- 5:47Speaker 2: the detective as part of his evidence were highlighted in
- 5:49Speaker 2: yellow particular items. So, like you mentioned, there was mushrooms
- 5:52Speaker 2: sliced and there'd be sort of two in one transaction
- 5:55Speaker 2: and then two there was two in another as well
- 5:57Speaker 2: as well as these sort of five different pieces of
- 6:00Speaker 2: beef over a couple of days. And as the detective
- 6:03Speaker 2: went through all of this evidence, there was a moment
- 6:06Speaker 2: where he was asked about what one of the columns meant,
- 6:10Speaker 2: and as he got to that, there was actually an
- 6:12Speaker 2: interruption from the jury when he said, oh, I don't
- 6:16Speaker 2: actually I'm not quite sure what that is for.
- 6:18Speaker 6: The fellow column.
- 6:19Speaker 2: And as he was asked by Jane Warren for the
- 6:22Speaker 2: prosecution and what's that particular column there, someone from the
- 6:25Speaker 2: jury said I know.
- 6:27Speaker 1: When he said that he didn't.
- 6:29Speaker 5: There was a lot of laughter in the courtroom at
- 6:31Speaker 5: that stage. The Jura looked quite embarrassed and actually put
- 6:34Speaker 5: her hand to her mouth almost to stop herself talking,
- 6:37Speaker 5: because she realized in that moment she probably shouldn't have
- 6:40Speaker 5: been interrupting what was going on with the evidence. The
- 6:43Speaker 5: judge then interjected quite quickly and also had a bit
- 6:46Speaker 5: of a chuckle, but said to this particular Dura, I
- 6:49Speaker 5: think it's best if you save those conversations for the
- 6:51Speaker 5: jury room and not bring it up here in the courtroom.
- 6:54Speaker 5: So we are listening to some quite serious evidence, but
- 6:57Speaker 5: we have had a few of these lighthearted moments, and
- 6:59Speaker 5: this was one where there was quite a roar of laughter.
- 7:02Speaker 5: I think nearly everybody in the room had a bit
- 7:04Speaker 5: of a chuckle. Then when this particular europe Yeah put
- 7:07Speaker 5: her hand up and said I think I can answer that,
- 7:09Speaker 5: your honor, and they quickly moved on to more more
- 7:12Speaker 5: about the grocery shopping list, and the informant really went
- 7:16Speaker 5: through and listed each each of those.
- 7:18Speaker 6: I've got here in my notes that.
- 7:19Speaker 5: On Sunday, the twenty third of July, for example, one
- 7:23Speaker 5: of some of the items purchased there was two different
- 7:25Speaker 5: lots of sliced mushrooms at five hundred grams a kilogram
- 7:29Speaker 5: of puff pastry, three hundred and seventy five grams of
- 7:32Speaker 5: Philo pastry onions of the French Chalotte version, and then
- 7:36Speaker 5: similar other purchases that happened on also on the twenty
- 7:39Speaker 5: seventh and twenty eighth of July. We know the lunch
- 7:42Speaker 5: was on the twenty ninth of July twenty twenty three.
- 7:45Speaker 5: So we heard a lot about that shopping list or
- 7:48Speaker 5: the list of items that had been purchased during those
- 7:50Speaker 5: particular days, and that evidence went on for quite a while.
- 7:53Speaker 2: Yeah, and moving to sort of the next part of
- 7:55Speaker 2: the evidence that this detective was taken through again sort
- 7:58Speaker 2: of in the vein of shopping this was banked transactions
- 8:00Speaker 2: from a Bendigo bank account. Now he was taken through
- 8:03Speaker 2: the details of that, saying that sort of was Aaron
- 8:06Speaker 2: Patterson's or at least a bank account attached to her.
- 8:08Speaker 1: We could see and what was being shown on the screen.
- 8:10Speaker 2: A lot of the particulars were sort of taken out
- 8:12Speaker 2: on what was being shown to the courtroom, but you
- 8:14Speaker 2: could see her name, Aaron Trudy Patterson listed on there.
- 8:18Speaker 2: And there were three specific transactions that the detective and
- 8:21Speaker 2: the jury were taken through. The first, as it came
- 8:24Speaker 2: up though it is the last in date, was a
- 8:27Speaker 2: transaction for what was described as the Coon Warrior tip
- 8:32Speaker 2: or it is the sort of the waste transfer station,
- 8:34Speaker 2: and that was on the second of August around sort
- 8:37Speaker 2: of eleven forty am in the morning around that time.
- 8:41Speaker 1: Then the two.
- 8:42Speaker 2: Others that were touched on were a transaction for a
- 8:46Speaker 2: service station, a BP service station, a colder mead. Now
- 8:49Speaker 2: that was on the thirtieth of July, the day after
- 8:52Speaker 2: the lunch.
- 8:52Speaker 5: Yeah, that receipt was played on the screen as well
- 8:54Speaker 5: for the jury as the informt was asked to confirm
- 8:57Speaker 5: these exhibits essentially, and then they were logged for the
- 8:59Speaker 5: jury so they can read them later on on their
- 9:01Speaker 5: iPads if they wish. Even the types of food that
- 9:04Speaker 5: were purchased at that particular occasion. It was a ham,
- 9:07Speaker 5: cheese and tomato sandwich, it was a chili chicken rap
- 9:10Speaker 5: and there was also something called a blister pack and
- 9:12Speaker 5: the informant was asked if he knew what that was
- 9:14Speaker 5: and he said he thought it was gum and there
- 9:16Speaker 5: was some more giggles around that, but we even got
- 9:18Speaker 5: the dollar amounts and things like that before he went
- 9:21Speaker 5: into the third transaction.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Yeah, and so that particular receipt that you're talking about there,
- 9:24Speaker 2: that was the physical receipt that the detective gave evidence
- 9:28Speaker 2: had sort of been sort of recovered from the service
- 9:30Speaker 2: station alongside these actual bank records, and it was mentioned
- 9:33Speaker 2: to the jury as part of this evidence that they
- 9:36Speaker 2: had seen CCTV of this particular.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Visit on the thirtieth.
- 9:39Speaker 2: But then they were also shown a transaction in that
- 9:42Speaker 2: bank account for it was that Cooi Rup which is
- 9:46Speaker 2: again in the Gippsland area, and the jury had heard
- 9:49Speaker 2: from the prosecutor as part of this she said, now
- 9:52Speaker 2: there was a mention in the Sun's evidence that there'd
- 9:54Speaker 2: been a stop on that particular day when they were
- 9:57Speaker 2: traveling through the area basically what was a donut van
- 10:00Speaker 2: and that came up with a donut van sort of
- 10:03Speaker 2: name as part of that transaction. And then that particular
- 10:07Speaker 2: amount there for about sort of thirteen dollars ten I
- 10:10Speaker 2: think it was, and it was mentioned to the jury
- 10:13Speaker 2: by the prosecutor. Remember we've heard this evidence before and
- 10:16Speaker 2: that there was three dim sims, a hot dog and
- 10:18Speaker 2: a coffee purchased as part of that transaction.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:21Speaker 5: What an informant is called to give evidence in a
- 10:24Speaker 5: trial such as this, they're essentially being asked and this
- 10:28Speaker 5: we saw this today to confirm. These are the things
- 10:30Speaker 5: that you've got sort of going from A to Z
- 10:34Speaker 5: of all the documents and all the evidence you've collected
- 10:36Speaker 5: along the way. So they moved through topics pretty quickly.
- 10:38Speaker 5: Some of them they spend a little bit more time
- 10:40Speaker 5: on today. But after we went through the bank transaction records,
- 10:43Speaker 5: which was only a couple of minutes that were spoken about,
- 10:45Speaker 5: they quickly moved to the next topic, Penny, and that
- 10:47Speaker 5: was to do with Gaiel Patterson's diary.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:49Speaker 2: So Gaiel Patterson's diary was entered into evidence, and this
- 10:52Speaker 2: was a hand sort of written diary, the sort of
- 10:55Speaker 2: diary that you would make appointments for for your week.
- 10:57Speaker 6: It was a week view by the Monday Boy to Sunday.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was taken through quite a few different
- 11:05Speaker 2: dates across varying time frames in twenty twenty three. But
- 11:09Speaker 2: some of the entries that were in that the jury
- 11:12Speaker 2: was sort of taken through and the detective was asked
- 11:15Speaker 2: to read these out and you'll hear a little bit
- 11:16Speaker 2: of that evidence in a moment. But on the twenty
- 11:18Speaker 2: eighth of June, which was a Wednesday, there was some
- 11:20Speaker 2: handwritten cursive there that said Erin Saint Vincent's arm lump.
- 11:24Speaker 2: And then on the twenty ninth of July lunch at
- 11:27Speaker 2: Erin's with Heather and Ian, and then the detective was
- 11:31Speaker 2: asked whether he had, through some of his investigation, checked
- 11:35Speaker 2: Aaron Patterson's medical records, and he gave evidence that yes,
- 11:39Speaker 2: he had checked her medical records, particularly for the time
- 11:42Speaker 2: of January twenty twenty three through to around this time
- 11:45Speaker 2: of the lunch and just after in August as well.
- 11:49Speaker 2: He was asked whether Aaron Patterson had intended Saint Vincent's
- 11:52Speaker 2: hospital on the twenty eighth of June or if there
- 11:54Speaker 2: was a medical appointment through her Medicare history and other
- 11:57Speaker 2: things he was looking at for that date, as mentioned
- 11:59Speaker 2: in the diary, and he said no, there were no
- 12:01Speaker 2: records that he'd been able to find, and that when
- 12:03Speaker 2: he checked with the hospital and his team contacted them,
- 12:06Speaker 2: they weren't able to confirm that there had been a
- 12:09Speaker 2: visit there either, and that's where the jury was then
- 12:11Speaker 2: moved on to another element of evidence connected to Gail Patterson,
- 12:15Speaker 2: that being Gail Patterson's mobile phone.
- 12:17Speaker 5: So there was also text messages around this time that
- 12:20Speaker 5: the informant was taken to between who the prosecutions say
- 12:23Speaker 5: is Aaron Patterson and Gail Patterson. And in these conversations
- 12:26Speaker 5: which will now take you through, they were speaking about
- 12:29Speaker 5: these medical appointments and how Aaron Patterson was going.
- 12:33Speaker 1: A message was read to the jury.
- 12:34Speaker 2: They were told this was sent on the twenty eighth
- 12:36Speaker 2: of June, round seven thirty pm from Gayle's phone saying, Hi, erin,
- 12:40Speaker 2: just wondering how you got on with your appointment today,
- 12:43Speaker 2: Love Gail and don Now here's a little bit of
- 12:46Speaker 2: what the jury heard from Stephen Eppingstall while he was
- 12:50Speaker 2: giving his evidence with Jane Warren from the prosecution.
- 12:52Speaker 7: It's voiced by actors twenty nine June twenty twenty three,
- 12:56Speaker 7: eleven fifty two am. Read out that text please yep.
- 13:02Speaker 3: Hi, Gail. Sorry, I had taken my daughter to see
- 13:05Speaker 3: a movie last night. We saw The Little Mermaid. The
- 13:08Speaker 3: appointment went okay, thanks for asking. I had a needle
- 13:11Speaker 3: biopsy taken of the lump and I'm returning for an
- 13:14Speaker 3: MRI next week and we'll know more after the results
- 13:17Speaker 3: of those two things.
- 13:19Speaker 7: Did you find any evidence in the accused medical records
- 13:22Speaker 7: of her having had a needle biopsy of a lump?
- 13:25Speaker 3: No?
- 13:25Speaker 7: Did you find any evidence in the accused medical records
- 13:29Speaker 7: of her being referred for or scheduled or having an MRI?
- 13:33Speaker 3: No?
- 13:34Speaker 7: Then if we look please there's a response there from
- 13:37Speaker 7: Gail to Aaron Patterson twenty ninth of June twenty twenty
- 13:41Speaker 7: three at six twenty six pm.
- 13:44Speaker 4: Yes, correct, and just read that out please yep.
- 13:49Speaker 3: That's a test of patience, isn't it. Praying you'll know
- 13:51Speaker 3: God's peace. We're just ready to relax. Nice to have
- 13:55Speaker 3: the fire warming us in this cold weather.
- 13:58Speaker 6: XO.
- 13:59Speaker 4: Okay.
- 14:00Speaker 7: If we go to the message above, that's number nine
- 14:02Speaker 7: timestamp six July twenty twenty three at eight fifteen pm.
- 14:07Speaker 7: This is from Gail Patterson to Aaron Patterson.
- 14:11Speaker 3: Yes correct?
- 14:12Speaker 4: Could you read that out please?
- 14:14Speaker 3: Hi Erin, How did you get on yesterday with your
- 14:17Speaker 3: medical test? Love Don and Gail?
- 14:19Speaker 7: And then the final message timestamp seven July twenty twenty three,
- 14:24Speaker 7: six forty six pm. This is from Aaron Patterson to
- 14:28Speaker 7: Gail Patterson. Yes correct, read that out please?
- 14:31Speaker 3: Thanks for your message, Don and Gail. There's a bit
- 14:34Speaker 3: to digest with everything that's come out of it all.
- 14:37Speaker 3: I might talk more about it with you when I
- 14:39Speaker 3: see you in person, Love Erin.
- 14:42Speaker 7: Okay, did you find in the medical records you reviewed
- 14:45Speaker 7: any medical appointments for the accused on six July twenty
- 14:50Speaker 7: twenty three.
- 14:51Speaker 2: No, there was quite a bit of different evidence given
- 14:54Speaker 2: today around different electronic devices, but particularly mobile phones. And
- 14:58Speaker 2: we'll try in the most succinct way we can to
- 15:02Speaker 2: talk about this evidence that was presented to the jury
- 15:05Speaker 2: through the informant when it came to mobile phones that
- 15:08Speaker 2: had been seized by his team with the homicide squad
- 15:11Speaker 2: as part of the search warrants that we've heard about.
- 15:13Speaker 5: Yeah, there was four different phones that were mentioned today,
- 15:16Speaker 5: Penny and two sim cards, and essentially the prosecution alleged
- 15:21Speaker 5: that Aaron Patterson moved these two SIM cards across the
- 15:24Speaker 5: multiple phones that she had in her possession in the
- 15:26Speaker 5: months leading up to and shortly after the time of
- 15:29Speaker 5: the fatal lunch. And it was those particular electronic devices.
- 15:33Speaker 5: And we heard a lot about imy numbers and SIM
- 15:35Speaker 5: card numbers and phone numbers and all of these types
- 15:37Speaker 5: of things. But to try and just simplify it all,
- 15:41Speaker 5: there was four phones referred to an evidence. One was
- 15:43Speaker 5: called the A twenty three phone, one was called Phone
- 15:46Speaker 5: A third was called Phone B, and the fourth was
- 15:49Speaker 5: called the Nokia smartphone.
- 15:51Speaker 7: Now.
- 15:51Speaker 6: The first three were all.
- 15:52Speaker 5: Samsung Galaxy type phones, and then the Nokia smartphone was
- 15:55Speaker 5: the one at the end. The way that the evidence
- 15:58Speaker 5: was explained to the jury was that the first mobile
- 16:00Speaker 5: phone A twenty three now that was found in a
- 16:03Speaker 5: cupboard in the bedroom of the accused teenage son during
- 16:06Speaker 5: the first search warrant in August twenty twenty three. It's
- 16:11Speaker 5: on that particular phone that the informants said that police
- 16:13Speaker 5: found communications the day alleged was between Aaron Patterson and
- 16:17Speaker 5: some Facebook friends. It had occurred months earlier in December
- 16:20Speaker 5: twenty twenty two, and that's where she'd spoken about smashing
- 16:23Speaker 5: her phone screen while on holiday to New Zealand and
- 16:26Speaker 5: then having to go and purchase another one of the
- 16:28Speaker 5: Samsung phones.
- 16:29Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll give you a little bit of the evidence
- 16:31Speaker 1: as the jury heard it.
- 16:32Speaker 2: This was given by Steven Eppingstall and Jane Warren from
- 16:36Speaker 2: the prosecution as part of this questioning, and they're reading
- 16:39Speaker 2: out Facebook messages and the times and dates associated with those.
- 16:43Speaker 3: The next message is at ten oh six pm from
- 16:45Speaker 3: Erin and it reads, anyway, I've been googling everything trying
- 16:50Speaker 3: to get into my phone and emails and just couldn't.
- 16:53Speaker 3: But then someone suggested I could do a hard reboot
- 16:55Speaker 3: of my phone and restart it in safe mode and
- 16:58Speaker 3: it might fix the frozen screen issue. And it worked
- 17:01Speaker 3: for now, but the screen is broken and might freeze
- 17:04Speaker 3: again at any second. So now that I am in,
- 17:07Speaker 3: I am copying down everything I need from it. Loll and.
- 17:10Speaker 3: Jenny Hay responds on seventeen December twenty twenty two at
- 17:14Speaker 3: ten ten pm. Or how stressful, Erin. Maybe you can
- 17:18Speaker 3: get the screen fixed in enz if they can do
- 17:21Speaker 3: it quickly. Erin responds two minutes later at ten twelve
- 17:25Speaker 3: pm yeah, I'm going to see if I can tomorrow.
- 17:29Speaker 3: It makes me realize how ridiculous it is that having
- 17:32Speaker 3: a broken phone makes everything so difficult. I can't get
- 17:35Speaker 3: into my banking on my laptop because it sends an
- 17:38Speaker 3: authorization SMS to my phone, et cetera, et cetera. Like
- 17:41Speaker 3: how dumb am I to make everything dependent on a
- 17:44Speaker 3: single bloody device?
- 17:46Speaker 4: And then next page, please yep.
- 17:48Speaker 3: So this is a message from Erin on nineteen December
- 17:52Speaker 3: twenty twenty two at five eighteen pm, and it reads
- 17:56Speaker 3: I had to buy a new phone today because I
- 17:59Speaker 3: couldn't get the other one unfixed IDK, which is I
- 18:02Speaker 3: don't know why, but setting up a new phone is
- 18:05Speaker 3: incredibly stressful for me.
- 18:07Speaker 4: And then final paid please yep.
- 18:09Speaker 3: And again this is a message from Erin on nineteen
- 18:12Speaker 3: December twenty twenty two. This one's at ten fifty eight pm.
- 18:17Speaker 3: I got a Samsung Galaxy A twenty three, the cheapest
- 18:20Speaker 3: I could get while not being an absolute piece of
- 18:22Speaker 3: shit phone. It was still four hundred dollars though emoji emoji.
- 18:27Speaker 6: We then heard evidence about Phone B.
- 18:29Speaker 5: Now this is the handset that the informant said the
- 18:31Speaker 5: accused had physically handed police during that first search warrant
- 18:35Speaker 5: in August twenty twenty three, and we saw some footage
- 18:38Speaker 5: and some still images of that happening of Aaron Patterson
- 18:42Speaker 5: handing that phone over to Luke Farrell who was working
- 18:45Speaker 5: as part of the homicide squad team on that day,
- 18:47Speaker 5: and it appeared to show a mobile phone that was
- 18:49Speaker 5: housed in an orange or red type phone case. And
- 18:52Speaker 5: as I said, that was played to the court, Eppingstall
- 18:55Speaker 5: said it was this phone that was connected to a
- 18:59Speaker 5: handset for the first time on the eleventh of July
- 19:02Speaker 5: twenty twenty three, because earlier, he was explaining, it had
- 19:05Speaker 5: only been seen to be used in a Samsung tablet
- 19:08Speaker 5: device before then being placed in phone B he set
- 19:12Speaker 5: around August three, twenty twenty three, about five days after
- 19:15Speaker 5: the lunch.
- 19:16Speaker 2: And before Stephen Eppingstall explained this particular element regarding the
- 19:20Speaker 2: tablet and the phone in his evidence and what he
- 19:23Speaker 2: says that evidence showed when the jury was shown this
- 19:26Speaker 2: steal image that had come from a video of the
- 19:29Speaker 2: handover of the phone with Luke Farrell, and it appeared
- 19:31Speaker 2: to be in a ready orange colored case.
- 19:34Speaker 1: They were also.
- 19:35Speaker 2: Shown prior to that another steal image from CCTV from
- 19:39Speaker 2: they were told Lee and Gatha Hospital, and they were
- 19:41Speaker 2: told that that was from the thirty first of July,
- 19:45Speaker 2: so two days after the lunch before this search warrant occurred.
- 19:48Speaker 2: And in that image as they zoomed in, it was
- 19:51Speaker 2: described by the prosecution and the detective.
- 19:53Speaker 1: Agreed with this that had appeared.
- 19:55Speaker 2: The phone in that image was in a pink case
- 19:58Speaker 2: when the image with Luke Farrell was shown, and that
- 20:02Speaker 2: the prosecutor noted in front of the jury, We'll leave
- 20:05Speaker 2: it up to the jury to decide what color that
- 20:07Speaker 2: phone is. But going to that evidence that you were
- 20:09Speaker 2: just mentioning regarding what Stephen Eppingstall said he was able
- 20:13Speaker 2: to ascertain from some records regarding this particular phone number
- 20:17Speaker 2: and SIM and the device as it was connected to.
- 20:20Speaker 1: Here's a little bit of what he said to the
- 20:22Speaker 1: court about that element of the investigation.
- 20:24Speaker 4: At eighteen oh three or six p oh three pm.
- 20:27Speaker 7: If we go across that far right hand column, what
- 20:31Speaker 7: happens there?
- 20:32Speaker 4: What do we see happen there?
- 20:34Speaker 3: So we see that the IMI has changed and what
- 20:37Speaker 3: that indicates is that the simcard for the eight three
- 20:41Speaker 3: five number has been removed from the tablet device that
- 20:44Speaker 3: it was in and it's been placed into a new device,
- 20:48Speaker 3: and it's really easy for us to identify those devices.
- 20:52Speaker 3: All we have to do is take that IMEI number,
- 20:54Speaker 3: plug it into a publicly available website and it will
- 20:58Speaker 3: identify the exact device that is.
- 21:00Speaker 7: Okay, and that device for imy ending two seven six
- 21:05Speaker 7: y two.
- 21:05Speaker 4: What device was that?
- 21:06Speaker 3: That's a Samsung Galaxy, Samsung Galaxy A twenty three mobile phone.
- 21:11Speaker 7: And did you identify that as ultimately the mobile phone
- 21:14Speaker 7: that miss Patterson handed to Detective Senior Sergeant Luke Farrell
- 21:18Speaker 7: on five August.
- 21:19Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's Phone B as we've been referring to
- 21:23Speaker 3: it throughout this.
- 21:23Speaker 7: Matter, Okay, and that phone is the same phone that
- 21:28Speaker 7: we have the records for which show several factory resets
- 21:31Speaker 7: occurred in August early August.
- 21:34Speaker 3: Yes, correct.
- 21:35Speaker 5: Eppingstall went further than to explain that as they looked
- 21:38Speaker 5: at the different records and the data that they could find,
- 21:41Speaker 5: explaining that every phone or device has a serial number
- 21:44Speaker 5: and IMI number, he said, what it indicated was during
- 21:48Speaker 5: that time of the police search of the house, the
- 21:50Speaker 5: first search, one of those two simcards was moved from
- 21:53Speaker 5: one of those Samsung devices into a Nokia smartphone.
- 21:57Speaker 7: Detective, there is some orange highlighting this time, yes, ma'am.
- 22:01Speaker 4: And the first row of.
- 22:02Speaker 7: Orange highlighting appears in five August twenty twenty three.
- 22:07Speaker 4: At one five pm.
- 22:09Speaker 3: Yes, correct.
- 22:10Speaker 4: Where were you at that time?
- 22:12Speaker 3: I was at Miss Patterson's house conducting the search warrant.
- 22:15Speaker 7: Okay, can you tell us what this record indicates occurs
- 22:18Speaker 7: in relation to the phone.
- 22:20Speaker 3: Yeah, So if you look over at so it's one
- 22:24Speaker 3: forty five pm on five August twenty twenty three, and
- 22:27Speaker 3: what we see if we look at the right hand column,
- 22:31Speaker 3: we see the actual SIM card change from Phone A
- 22:34Speaker 3: into a different phone, A phone with an IMY ending
- 22:37Speaker 3: four eight nine eight.
- 22:38Speaker 7: Okay again, did you check that IMI to find out
- 22:44Speaker 7: what that device was?
- 22:45Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a Nokia mobile phone, a smartphone, Yes, yes, ma'am.
- 22:50Speaker 7: And we heard evidence from doctor Currell that there can
- 22:53Speaker 7: sometimes be anomalies in the records when a SIM card
- 22:56Speaker 7: changes over and an existing data session ends.
- 23:00Speaker 3: Yes. Correct.
- 23:01Speaker 5: Then he explained that they were then beginning to search
- 23:04Speaker 5: for this phone A. And this phone A was the
- 23:07Speaker 5: one that was in the pink case that you just mentioned, Penny,
- 23:10Speaker 5: another Samsung device, but it was his phone A that
- 23:13Speaker 5: saw police return to Aaron Patterson's home on the second
- 23:17Speaker 5: of November twenty twenty three. This is the second search warrant,
- 23:21Speaker 5: and epping Stall explained that on that warrant they have
- 23:23Speaker 5: to explain the reasons for why they're attending the property
- 23:26Speaker 5: and it was a further search for electronic devices. And
- 23:29Speaker 5: he explained to the jury that they returned home, returned
- 23:33Speaker 5: to that home really specifically looking for Phone A and
- 23:36Speaker 5: it's never been located by police.
- 23:37Speaker 2: Here's a little bit of that evidence. As Steven Eppingstall
- 23:41Speaker 2: said it to the jury. It's not his real voice.
- 23:43Speaker 7: We've obviously discussed and heard evidence that Phone B, which
- 23:48Speaker 7: is the phone that was handed over to Detective Sergeant Farrell,
- 23:51Speaker 7: was the phone that was received on five August yep
- 23:54Speaker 7: on to November twenty twenty three. Did police execute a
- 23:59Speaker 7: further search warrant at the accused home address? Yes, we
- 24:03Speaker 7: did miss Patisona's home at that time.
- 24:06Speaker 4: Is that right?
- 24:06Speaker 7: Yes, she was, And the terms of that warrant was
- 24:10Speaker 7: to search for several items, including specifically a Samsung Galaxy
- 24:16Speaker 7: A twenty three phone IMY ending one three seven nine.
- 24:20Speaker 4: Is that right?
- 24:21Speaker 3: Yes, we were looking for phone A phone A.
- 24:25Speaker 7: The phone that we see throughout the bulk of July
- 24:28Speaker 7: into early August. Is the IMI that seven eight three
- 24:33Speaker 7: is connected to?
- 24:33Speaker 4: Is that right?
- 24:34Speaker 3: Yes? Correct?
- 24:35Speaker 4: Was a search for.
- 24:37Speaker 7: That mobile phone conducted by police on that date to November, Yes,
- 24:41Speaker 7: it was.
- 24:42Speaker 4: Was that phone located?
- 24:43Speaker 3: No, it's never been located by police.
- 24:46Speaker 1: We'll be back after this.
- 24:48Speaker 2: Moving away from the phones, more of this again. Electronic
- 24:52Speaker 2: related data and evidence that was presented to the jury
- 24:55Speaker 2: as part of the informant being questioned by the prosecution.
- 24:59Speaker 1: Was go through a number of computer.
- 25:02Speaker 2: Records and this particular and other device records where the
- 25:07Speaker 2: informant was being asked about some URLs which have already
- 25:10Speaker 2: been shown to the jury, which is a website, Yeah,
- 25:13Speaker 2: the website addresses, and how he'd gone about sort of
- 25:16Speaker 2: investigating what those websites were. And the jury was shown
- 25:19Speaker 2: a series of screenshots for ten different URLs where the
- 25:23Speaker 2: informant gave evidence that in this situation, this had been
- 25:26Speaker 2: taken off a portable case that the listeners have heard
- 25:29Speaker 2: about before, a copy of a device, and he'd copied
- 25:32Speaker 2: directly that particular website into a browser, each time taking
- 25:36Speaker 2: a screenshot on his computer now he was taking these screenshots.
- 25:39Speaker 2: The jury was told in December twenty twenty four a
- 25:42Speaker 2: lot of the dates that the URLs, the data they
- 25:46Speaker 2: had that it had been accessed was back in May
- 25:48Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. So it was explained by the judge
- 25:51Speaker 2: as well to the jury that there could have been
- 25:52Speaker 2: potentially changes and updates to these websites since the time
- 25:56Speaker 2: that they were first accessed, that they were seeing screenshots
- 25:59Speaker 2: from that twenty four December twenty twenty four time, that
- 26:03Speaker 2: there was a series of these and they showed a
- 26:05Speaker 2: number of different screenshots of the I Naturalist website and
- 26:10Speaker 2: particularly posts or observations around deathcat mushrooms.
- 26:13Speaker 5: Yeah, the informat was explaining that there was one particular
- 26:17Speaker 5: sighting that he followed through the records to get to
- 26:21Speaker 5: and that was a siding at Morabin which we've spoken
- 26:24Speaker 5: about earlier at Bricker Reserve. It was a gentleman by
- 26:26Speaker 5: the name of Ivan who had posted this post on
- 26:29Speaker 5: the our Naturalist website. And the way that they were
- 26:32Speaker 5: explaining this evidence to the jury was that at the
- 26:35Speaker 5: same time these II Naturalist websites and this sighting post
- 26:39Speaker 5: was being accessed, was around about the same time as
- 26:42Speaker 5: there was evidence on the computer that purchase was being
- 26:47Speaker 5: made on a different website around about the same time
- 26:50Speaker 5: from the curR and Barre at Middle Hotel or the
- 26:52Speaker 5: curR and Barre at Middle Pub And there was a
- 26:55Speaker 5: receipt that police were able to track down and show
- 26:58Speaker 5: to the jury that showed that there was an online
- 27:00Speaker 5: order made for a family dinner around about the same time.
- 27:04Speaker 5: And they say that that purchase was made using Aaron
- 27:07Speaker 5: Patterson's credit card details and then that.
- 27:10Speaker 6: Food was subsequently delivered.
- 27:12Speaker 5: But Penny and we also heard exactly what was purchased
- 27:14Speaker 5: in that family dinner.
- 27:15Speaker 2: Now, the informant went through as part of his evidence
- 27:18Speaker 2: once it explained the process of accessing these URLs that
- 27:21Speaker 2: when he was investigating, he had then gone to this
- 27:24Speaker 2: particular hotel and he'd asked for any transaction sort of
- 27:28Speaker 2: or orders placed by Aaron Patterson and he had been
- 27:30Speaker 2: handed essentially a physical receipt that was shown to the
- 27:33Speaker 2: jury and he took them through what was.
- 27:36Speaker 1: On this particular receipt.
- 27:37Speaker 2: Now, what we could see in the courtroom and what
- 27:40Speaker 2: was read out was it had Erin as the name
- 27:42Speaker 2: on it and that there was a phone number a
- 27:45Speaker 2: delivery address and that this transaction had been made around
- 27:49Speaker 2: seven twenty five pm.
- 27:50Speaker 1: Now, what was.
- 27:51Speaker 2: Listed on this particular delivery was a it was called
- 27:54Speaker 2: a family pack. There was garlic bread listed, two chicken parmesanas,
- 27:58Speaker 2: a kid's burger, a kid fish coke with no sugar
- 28:01Speaker 2: for one point two liters, which came to about seventy
- 28:04Speaker 2: five dollars with delivery just over eighty dollars. And we'll
- 28:07Speaker 2: hear a little bit more of the evidence of the
- 28:09Speaker 2: informant now regarding what he said he was able to
- 28:14Speaker 2: ascertain from looking at these particular payment records and the
- 28:17Speaker 2: time that they were made.
- 28:18Speaker 3: So it says this payment was verified with three D
- 28:22Speaker 3: secure and may be detected from being disputed for fraud,
- 28:26Speaker 3: and that's on May twenty eight, twenty twenty two, at
- 28:29Speaker 3: seven twenty five pm. And then it indicates immediately after
- 28:32Speaker 3: that the payment succeeded, and then there appears to be
- 28:35Speaker 3: an authentication succeeded and payments started all at seven twenty
- 28:39Speaker 3: five On May twenty two.
- 28:42Speaker 5: Eppingstall said that he looked into Aaron Patterson's medical records
- 28:46Speaker 5: after becoming aware early on in their investigation that she
- 28:49Speaker 5: had spoken about an alleged cancer diagnosis with her family
- 28:53Speaker 5: at that particular lunch, and he said what he did
- 28:56Speaker 5: to investigate that was he first looked at the Victorian
- 28:58Speaker 5: cancer database, also at her doctor's records, and ultimately he
- 29:02Speaker 5: said he found that the accused had never been diagnosed
- 29:04Speaker 5: with cancer at all and there was no records of
- 29:06Speaker 5: any medical appointments that would.
- 29:08Speaker 6: Back up that claim.
- 29:10Speaker 5: It was then the subject of cross examination which we
- 29:14Speaker 5: heard for the first time for Stephen epping Stall later
- 29:18Speaker 5: in the day while and truly after lunch, when Colin
- 29:22Speaker 5: Mandy es SI got on the stand and started asking
- 29:24Speaker 5: Stephen epping Stall Penny lots more questions about these medical
- 29:28Speaker 5: records and what police had been able to find.
- 29:30Speaker 2: Yeah, and the jury had previously heard as part of
- 29:33Speaker 2: what Stephen Eppingstall was saying to the prosecution that he had,
- 29:36Speaker 2: again as we've talked about, had search warrants and attained
- 29:39Speaker 2: the data from different medical facilities and those included three
- 29:43Speaker 2: particular doctor practices, one being in lin Gatha, one in
- 29:46Speaker 2: karen Burrough and one in Mount Waverley. And so he'd
- 29:49Speaker 2: spoken about that previously with the prosecution, but Colin Mandy
- 29:53Speaker 2: took him through these elements in a little bit more
- 29:56Speaker 2: detail in relation to different elements of Aaron Patterson's medical history.
- 30:00Speaker 2: But before he did that, he noted to the detective
- 30:04Speaker 2: that Aaron Patterson has no criminal history. He agreed, and
- 30:07Speaker 2: that she had been and that he had said in
- 30:09Speaker 2: what the jury has been played from the police interview
- 30:12Speaker 2: that she'd been quite helpful and he agreed with that.
- 30:14Speaker 6: He agreed again, Yeah, he definitely did.
- 30:16Speaker 5: And he also agreed that Aaron Patterson had given police
- 30:20Speaker 5: officers permission to break into her property if they needed
- 30:23Speaker 5: to in order to find any of the lunch leftovers.
- 30:26Speaker 5: And then we heard a little bit more about about
- 30:28Speaker 5: the medical records.
- 30:30Speaker 6: We heard first off a.
- 30:33Speaker 5: Little bit from Colin Mandy asking the informant whether or
- 30:36Speaker 5: not Aaron Patterson's medical records showed that she had raised
- 30:39Speaker 5: fears that she may have had ovarian cancer with doctors
- 30:42Speaker 5: as early as October.
- 30:44Speaker 6: Twenty twenty one.
- 30:44Speaker 5: Penny, you just mentioned there was three different medical practice
- 30:47Speaker 5: records that were referred to, but the informant was really
- 30:51Speaker 5: taken back to October twenty twenty one and was asked
- 30:53Speaker 5: whether or not he could confirm these medical records that
- 30:56Speaker 5: were displayed on the screen confirmed that Aaron Patterson had
- 31:00Speaker 5: fact made queries over whether or not she may have
- 31:02Speaker 5: ovarian cancer. Then also heart failure, ms, chronic fatigue. These
- 31:07Speaker 5: types of things were documented in some of these medical
- 31:09Speaker 5: notes that have been made by made by doctors. And
- 31:13Speaker 5: there was also some text messages to her estranged husband,
- 31:16Speaker 5: Simon Patterson that spoke about these same medical concerns around
- 31:20Speaker 5: about the same time as though the doctors were documenting
- 31:23Speaker 5: those things in her medical records.
- 31:25Speaker 2: Now we'll play you a little bit of the evidence
- 31:27Speaker 2: as the court heard it. This is while the informant
- 31:29Speaker 2: is being cross examined by the defense by Colin Mandy
- 31:33Speaker 2: sc and it's in relation to a particular number of
- 31:37Speaker 2: medical records around changes in Aaron Patterson's health.
- 31:41Speaker 8: There's a consultation on the twenty first October twenty twenty one.
- 31:45Speaker 8: Do you see that, Yes, Sir I do with Cassie jw.
- 31:48Speaker 8: You recognize that name, Yes, Sir I do, and that's
- 31:51Speaker 8: it Liam Gatha. Yes, And we can see the last
- 31:54Speaker 8: paragraph says Aaron worries about ovary cancer, has been googling
- 31:59Speaker 8: her symptoms, think her symptoms may be suggestive of overary cancer.
- 32:04Speaker 8: And then us which we understand to be ultrasound ovaries
- 32:08Speaker 8: review in two weeks with results.
- 32:10Speaker 1: Do you see that, yes, sir?
- 32:12Speaker 8: And then above that some results received reviewed all fine,
- 32:16Speaker 8: and then MRI booked in six November. Yes, and ultrasound
- 32:21Speaker 8: booked in first November, Yes, sir. And you asked some
- 32:24Speaker 8: questions this morning by miss Warren about whether or not
- 32:27Speaker 8: there was any record of an MRI, but I think
- 32:29Speaker 8: the questions were restricted to January to August of twenty
- 32:32Speaker 8: twenty three. Yes, correct, sir, And then above that a
- 32:36Speaker 8: further consultation which is on the twenty eighth of October
- 32:39Speaker 8: at nine thirty three am with Cassie jew And it
- 32:42Speaker 8: says this is a referral letter to a general physician
- 32:46Speaker 8: called Dr Ogilby thank you for seeing Aaron, who is
- 32:50Speaker 8: a mother of two beautiful young kids and lives with
- 32:53Speaker 8: her husband. Over the past few months, Aaron has experienced
- 32:56Speaker 8: a series of non specific symptoms including extreme fatigue, lathery.
- 33:02Speaker 8: I think that should say lethargy, but it says lathery, headache,
- 33:06Speaker 8: sore and dry eyes, nausea, poor appetite, indigestion, altered bowel habits,
- 33:12Speaker 8: overactive bladder with urinary incontinence, irregular period, weight gait, probably
- 33:18Speaker 8: gain pins and needles in her hands and feet, clumsiness
- 33:21Speaker 8: in feet.
- 33:22Speaker 3: Is that right, yes, sir.
- 33:25Speaker 8: Other than that, she has good general health in the past,
- 33:27Speaker 8: and she is not on any medications. I knew erin
- 33:30Speaker 8: before as we went to the same church, but I
- 33:32Speaker 8: only started to see her as a patient which she
- 33:35Speaker 8: presented to our clinic for the above problems. She looked
- 33:38Speaker 8: very different from what I know of her, as she
- 33:41Speaker 8: seems to put on a lot of weight and looks
- 33:43Speaker 8: very swollen in the face, legs, and feet. Other than
- 33:47Speaker 8: the generalized swelling, her physical examination is unremarkable. I have
- 33:52Speaker 8: organized some investigations. All other routine tests are normal. And
- 33:57Speaker 8: that's a letter to doctor Ogilby, who, according to the
- 34:00Speaker 8: top line, is a general physician. Yes, sir, that's a
- 34:03Speaker 8: referral letter, yep.
- 34:05Speaker 5: So.
- 34:05Speaker 2: As well as these discussions around concerns that Aaron Patterson
- 34:09Speaker 2: had brought to doctors about symptoms she'd been googling regarding
- 34:13Speaker 2: ovarian cancer and various other elements, there was also quite
- 34:17Speaker 2: a bit of talk around procedures that she'd been booked
- 34:20Speaker 2: in to undergo, and some of those around sort of
- 34:24Speaker 2: her heart and other things. And it was while she
- 34:26Speaker 2: was on a holiday in Tasmania. The jury was told
- 34:29Speaker 2: that she had this communication back and forth with her
- 34:31Speaker 2: strange partner, Simon Patterson.
- 34:33Speaker 5: Yeh was the fourth of the first twenty twenty two
- 34:36Speaker 5: I've got in my notes here, Penny that there was
- 34:39Speaker 5: signal messages between these strange couple and in one Aaron
- 34:42Speaker 5: Patterson had messaged quote, it's my heart that's troubling me.
- 34:45Speaker 5: Then there was further conversations over the following days as
- 34:48Speaker 5: well about whether or not she should go public or private,
- 34:52Speaker 5: and whether or not the cost for private would be more,
- 34:55Speaker 5: but she wouldn't have to wait with the delays, and
- 34:57Speaker 5: she also wouldn't then have to go and deal with
- 34:59Speaker 5: COVID patients going down that particular route as well. There
- 35:04Speaker 5: was also evidence given from the medical staff and in
- 35:06Speaker 5: these conversations Aaron Patterson was having with Simon Patterson around
- 35:10Speaker 5: that time that she'd been googling her symptoms and was
- 35:12Speaker 5: concerned about her health, and the informant agreed. The informant agreed,
- 35:16Speaker 5: he said, yes, I agree. This backs up what Colin
- 35:19Speaker 5: Mandy was saying. It says that Aaron Patterson had been
- 35:21Speaker 5: googling the symptoms, and he agreed that she'd been concerned
- 35:24Speaker 5: about her health for this period of time.
- 35:25Speaker 2: And it was sort of all of this was put
- 35:28Speaker 2: to the informant as being this was in the brief
- 35:30Speaker 2: of evidence that you collected, wasn't it? And he did
- 35:33Speaker 2: agree with most of that. There was a moment where
- 35:35Speaker 2: it was a little not heated, but there was a
- 35:38Speaker 2: back and forth for a moment where he was asked
- 35:40Speaker 2: about some particular medical history regarding her family's medical history
- 35:45Speaker 2: and their history with cancer. And we'll just play you
- 35:47Speaker 2: a little bit of what was said there now with
- 35:49Speaker 2: Colin Mandy and the informant, do.
- 35:51Speaker 8: You accept that there is material available to investigators and
- 35:55Speaker 8: on the brief which demonstrated that in October of twenty
- 35:59Speaker 8: twenty one, Aaron Patterson was concerned about having ovarian cancer, yes, sir,
- 36:04Speaker 8: And that she sought medical treatment about that or investigations
- 36:08Speaker 8: medical investigations about that, yes, sir, yep. And that she
- 36:11Speaker 8: has a family history of avarian cancer, both paternal and maternal,
- 36:16Speaker 8: with a daughter who had an ovarian mass that is
- 36:19Speaker 8: an ovarian syst.
- 36:20Speaker 3: Well, that's self reported, sir.
- 36:22Speaker 8: But well, I'm asking you about the records.
- 36:24Speaker 3: The record says that, and that's what you're.
- 36:26Speaker 8: Going on, detective, aren't you When you're referring to the
- 36:28Speaker 8: medical records, you're relying on the accuracy of what's contained
- 36:31Speaker 8: within them.
- 36:32Speaker 2: Yeah, what, Yes, We'll be back with more evidence as
- 36:35Speaker 2: it's presented to the jury.
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