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In this episode Caroline and Wayne have the moment Erin Patterson accepted there were death cap mushrooms in the beef wellingtons she served which killed three members of her husband’s family. The adm...
· 24 min 44 sec
In this emergency update episode Caroline and Wayne have the moment Erin Patterson started giving evidence in her defence. For the first time she spoke of her relationship with her estranged husband a...
· 9 min 14 sec
In this episode Caroline and Wayne hear the evidence of the police lead investigator challenged by Erin Paterson’s defence team. We also have more of the Facebook messages she was sending to her frien...
· 24 min 33 sec
The spectre of Dr Harold Shipman hangs over the medical community like a black cloud on the horizon: ominous and bleak. His victims run into the hundreds, probably more than we’ll ever know. History t...
· 22 min 44 sec
In this episode we have, for the first time, the words of Erin Patterson. In her first police interview in the days after the lunch she lied by saying she didn’t own a food dehydrator when she had dum...
· 27 min 13 sec
In this episode Caroline and Wayne have the messages Erin Patterson allegedly sent to her Facebook friends about her in-laws. In the messages she calls her husband Simon a “deadbeat” and expresses her...
· 30 min 24 sec
With the chief suspect behind bars, some of their closest associates are ready to talk. Gently, over the course of nearly a year, reporters George Odling and Andy Jehring follow a trail. Their enquiri...
· 43 min 58 sec
In this episode Caroline and Wayne hear from a poisons expert who posted pictures of death cap mushrooms growing a few miles from Erin Patterson’s home. And we have the evidence from a mobile phone ex...
· 26 min 0 sec
In this episode Caroline and Wayne have the moment a juror was dismissed from the trial after being accused of breaking the rules. We also have more about mushrooms - of course - and if foragers can t...
· 25 min 9 sec
Reporters George Odling and Andy Jehring’s investigation into the Ecclestone diamond heist is now well underway, and, in this episode, they’re off to Europe to make enquiries.George heads to Milan to...
· 32 min 8 sec
Today Caroline and Wayne have some Lessons in Mushrooms from an expert known as Funkey Tom who gave evidence to the trial. He told the jury what the distinctive characteristics are of Death Cap Mushro...
· 18 min 34 sec
In the episode Caroline and Wayne have the words of Erin Patterson’s two children. They were aged 14 and nine at the time and they were video interviewed shortly after the lunch. In their evidence the...
· 19 min 31 sec
In this update episode Caroline and Wayne have the moment Erin Patterson’s daughter told police what she knew. She was just nine at the time and in court we saw the video of her being interviewed. Lea...
· 9 min 17 sec
In 2020, the first arrests are made over the Ecclestone heist, but, after an eight-week trial – one in which George almost accidentally found himself in possession of evidence that directly contradict...
· 34 min 14 sec
In this episode Caroline and Wayne have the evidence of the only person to survive the beef wellington lunch. Over several hours in the witness box Ian Wilkinson spoke for the first time about what ha...
· 19 min 5 sec
In this update episode Caroline and Wayne have more of the evidence from Erin Patterson’s estranged husband Simon. He denies asking her if she used a food dehydrator “to poison them”. We also hear fro...
· 13 min 41 sec
Today Caroline and Wayne have the evidence of Erin Patterson’s husband Simon, He told the jury he was estranged from his wife but they had a friendly relationship until there was a row over school fee...
· 22 min 37 sec
Erin Patterson, the woman accused of murdering and attempting to murder her in-laws using poisonous mushrooms in Australia, has admitted repeatedly lying. As the case against her opened today in front...
· 22 min 42 sec
After the heist, Detective Constable Andrew Payne and his team had very little to go on – just the grainy home security footage, two burner phones and a screwdriver left behind by the burglars. In thi...
· 30 min 49 sec
The woman accused of murdering and attempting to murder members of her husband’s family in July 2023 has finally gone on trial. Erin Patterson allegedly served a lunch which contained poisonous mushro...
· 14 min 31 sec