Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial LIVE updates: Patterson fights back tears as her young daughter’s video evidence is played to the jury

Patterson, wearing a long brown cardigan and green top, watched a screen in the dock intently as her then 9-year-old daughter told the jury how her mum was a ‘good cook’.

The daughter, now 11, told police in the recorded interview that she only knew she ate the leftovers from the lunch because her mum had told her.

Patterson chuckled when her daughter said ice-cream was her favourite food.

The jury heard the daughter, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said her mum is a ‘good cook’ who has ‘made lots of stuff before’ and enjoys cooking.

She said she and her mum had cooked muffins and cupcakes together but never any savoury dinner-type foods.

When police asked her how she knew she ate leftovers from the deadly meal, the daughter said: ‘Because mum told me’.

The daughter she and her brother had been kept in hospital overnight.

She said she had tests but saw her mum at the hospital, and she had been happy to see her, giving her a hug.

Patterson choked back tears when her daughter recalled how they once stayed in their Glen Waverley home in Melbourne’s outer-east when she had been performing on stage in a school holiday play drama.

The daughter also told police she doesn’t like mushrooms, has never been picking wild mushrooms, never seen mushrooms while out with her mum and her brother, but that she had once seen a wild mushroom at school.

She said she bought mushrooms with mum at IGA Korumburra but can’t remember the last time she bought mushrooms with her mum.

The daughter also said she has never been to an Asian grocers with her mum.

Accused mushroom murderer Erin Patterson, 50, will today witness both her children’s recorded video evidence.

Late yesterday, Patterson, who is accused of murdering her in-laws Don and Gail Patterson and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson after serving them a deadly meal laden with death cap mushrooms, became emotional after seeing video evidence from her daughter.

Patterson is also accused of attempting to murder Heather’s husband pastor Ian Wilkinson (pictured below right with supporters) who survived the lunch after spending several weeks in an intensive care unit.

The court heard Patterson’s estranged husband Simon was also invited but didn’t attend.

Witnesses told the jury Patterson ate her serving from a smaller and differently coloured plate than those of her guests, who ate from four grey plates, the court heard.

The jury was also told Patterson had been in two Gippsland areas where lethal death cap mushrooms had been spotted and identified in an alert on the iNatural app.

Patterson told authorities she bought dried mushrooms from an unnamed Asian store in the Monash area of metropolitan Melbourne, but health inspectors could find no evidence of this.

The health department declared the death cap poisoning was ‘isolated’ to Patterson’s deadly lunch.

Multiple witnesses including Simon Patterson, Ian Wilkinson and other family members have given emotion-charged evidence to the jury.

Medical staff have told the jury of the horrifying symptoms the dying lunch guests and Ian Wilkinson suffered.

Patterson’s movements at hospital and her abrupt departure have also been aired in court as the trial continues this morning.