The estranged husband of killer-accused, Erin Patterson, has taken the stand today - revealing a series of texts.
Patterson's charged with murdering his parents and aunt with a beef wellington lunch laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms.
Australian correspondent Murray Olds says the ex-husband, Simon Patterson, was invited to the lunch - but declined.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the US and Ukraine have finally signed that resources deal.
The two countries will co invest. This is the details
of it. Will co invest in a fund that will
extract Ukraine's mineral resources and then we'll rebuild the country's infrastructure.
Now Trump reckins this deal will help the US recoup
its investment in Ukraine's war, and the Kiev School of
Economics is happy with it.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Two so the latest version doesn't have the loan like
imaginary loan that it had has four some versions, so
all this negative scenario around it dissipate it.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Over in Australia, the Mushroom chef Aaron Patterson's a strange
husband has taken the standard her murder trial. Simon Patterson
was invited to the lunch where the four people fell
ill with the death cap poisoning. BBC reporter Katie Watson
says Simon texted erin the day before the lunch to
say he couldn't come now.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Aaron replied saying, that's really disappointing. I've spent many hours
this week preparing lunch for tomorrow, which has been exhausting
in light of the issues I'm facing, and spent a
small fortune on beef. I phill it to make beef
Wellington's because I want to there's to be a special
mealis and may not be able to host a lunch
like this again for some time.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And finally Texas Department of Transportation crews have had to
clean up ten cent coins, eight million ten cent coins.
What happened was the truck carrying the dimes crashed on
a highway and eight hundred thousand dollars of the cargo
was lost. A passing motors said he was thinking about
rushing home and then coming back with a bucket to
(01:25):
grab as many coins as he could.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand business Murray.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Holds Our Aussie correspondents with US Now ho muz, good day,
Good afternoon. What did you make of the estrange husband's testimony?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah, I know, it's pretty It's pretty stunning, isn't it.
See they're still married. I thought they were divorced, but
apparently they are still married. And as far as he
was concerned, the ex husband Simon, he thought they had
quite a good marriage until things went off the rails
a little bit in the mid teens, mid twenty teens
(02:03):
and they finally broke up, but they're still civil enough
that she would host his mom and dad at lunch,
and she invited him and he, you know, he said, listen,
I wouldn't feel comfortable about coming. And as you heard
there in that clip, you know, I've spent a small fortune.
Wish you could come, wish you could be here. And
of course it just ends in tragedy because both of
(02:23):
his parents are dead, so too one of his aunts,
and it was it's just a hell of a mess.
I mean, she's pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder.
And you know, he was the first first witness. There's
going to be many more. I think this is down
for five weeks, Heather, so there's going to be a
whole lot more of this absolutely intriguing story to come.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Tell me about this paramedic who's been giving some information
to the inquest on the BONDI stabbing.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, in the same way that the inquest is looking at,
you know, the deaths of these six people and the
injuries to the ten others. To our emergency services now
examining through this inquest, the responses to that dreadful Saturday
afternoon over in Sydney's eastern suburbs. What you've got here,
one single police officer, a police woman happened to be nearby.
(03:15):
Luckily happened to be nearby. She got there in time
to shoot Joel Coucy dead. But on the back of that,
police weren't one hundred percent sureheader was there a second
person going crazy in the shopping center with a knife.
The first report said, there's the guy going nuts with
a gun, so everybody's flocked there. Amy, I forget the
(03:36):
police officer's name, now my bad. But she's got there
in a heartbeat, neutralized the guy shot him dead, but
the police had to be satisfied there was no one
else going nuts in the center. That's why paramedics were
held outside. These are specialist paramedics who were out there
absolutely chafing. They wanted to get inside. They knew people
(03:56):
were dead, they knew people were injured, possibly dying. They
wanted to get in there, but police said, no, you
can't go in. So there's a vastly experienced paramedic has
been giving ever but it's nearly fifty years in the job,
a total specialist. But he's talked about there was no
personal protective gear available for the paramedics that day, a
rostering cockup, if you like, meant that basically meant there
(04:20):
were no specially trained emergency top level paramedics available. And
he's also suggested, listen, if this ever happens again, God forbid,
what about two of us go in with police police
escorting us to go and check on the injured people.
So these are some of the things that are now
being analyzed in this inquest. Was the response good enough?
(04:40):
And apparently there was nothing that could have been done
to save those who died and the ones who were
injured were got out in time. So to that extent,
I suppose the loved ones of those who died and
who were injured, I suppose there's a measure of comfort
there that no one passed away who wasn't going to
pass away anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Traggition from this paramedic that they would have gone in
even though the police are telling them not to. They
would have risked their own lives and gone it.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
That's the inference from the paramedic. I mean, look, they're
not there to be silly and you know, risk their
own lives. He's saying, listen, if it's necessary let's go
in with police. Police are armed, they're trying to shoot
people if they have to. We're not. We're there to
save life as best we possibly can. And I think
that's the tenor of his Testamenty.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Now, listen, how bad does this YouGov poll for Peter
dutn't he shot buddy?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Hell? It looks grim And if this comes true, and
don't forget you gov is the organization. It's not like
a news poll that's run by Murdock or the other side.
The nine newspaper network over here has its own polling system.
You gov is widely regarded as perhaps the most reliable
of these internet polling organizations. And if these figures come
(05:55):
true on Saturday, terrible news for Peter Dutton in the opposition.
The latest figure show label will not only be returned
on Saturday with an increased majority, it'll have a majority government.
It'll have maybe eighty four seats in the one hundred
and fifty seat parliament, the coalition down to below fifty
forty seven seats, the lowest percentage header if this comes
true since nineteen hundred and forty six. Now you and
(06:18):
I have spoken before. This campaign for the opposition has
been an absolute disaster. Policy black flips on the run,
Peter Dutton talked about living you know in Sydney on
the harbor there in the Prime Minister's houses. Instead of
talking about cost of living, it's cost of living dummy.
It should have been banged into was head in day one.
I mean they had all they had three years to
get ready for this and it's been an absolute shamozzle.
(06:41):
So if it comes true from long long faces on
the conservative side of politics here on Saturday Night, so.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Right, Maz, thanks very much, really appreciate it. Murray Old's
Australia correspondent.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to
news Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Now the US and Ukraine have finally signed that resources deal.
The two countries will co invest. This is the details
of it. Will co invest in a fund that will
extract Ukraine's mineral resources and then we'll rebuild the country's infrastructure.
Now Trump reckins this deal will help the US recoup
its investment in Ukraine's war, and the Kiev School of
Economics is happy with it.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Two so the latest version doesn't have the loan like
imaginary loan that it had has four some versions, so
all this negative scenario around it dissipate it.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Over in Australia, the Mushroom chef Aaron Patterson's a strange
husband has taken the standard her murder trial. Simon Patterson
was invited to the lunch where the four people fell
ill with the death cap poisoning. BBC reporter Katie Watson
says Simon texted erin the day before the lunch to
say he couldn't come now.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Aaron replied saying, that's really disappointing. I've spent many hours
this week preparing lunch for tomorrow, which has been exhausting
in light of the issues I'm facing, and spent a
small fortune on beef. I phill it to make beef
Wellington's because I want to there's to be a special
mealis and may not be able to host a lunch
like this again for some time.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And finally Texas Department of Transportation crews have had to
clean up ten cent coins, eight million ten cent coins.
What happened was the truck carrying the dimes crashed on
a highway and eight hundred thousand dollars of the cargo
was lost. A passing motors said he was thinking about
rushing home and then coming back with a bucket to
(01:25):
grab as many coins as he could.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand business Murray.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Holds Our Aussie correspondents with US Now ho muz, good day,
Good afternoon. What did you make of the estrange husband's testimony?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah, I know, it's pretty It's pretty stunning, isn't it.
See they're still married. I thought they were divorced, but
apparently they are still married. And as far as he
was concerned, the ex husband Simon, he thought they had
quite a good marriage until things went off the rails
a little bit in the mid teens, mid twenty teens
(02:03):
and they finally broke up, but they're still civil enough
that she would host his mom and dad at lunch,
and she invited him and he, you know, he said, listen,
I wouldn't feel comfortable about coming. And as you heard
there in that clip, you know, I've spent a small fortune.
Wish you could come, wish you could be here. And
of course it just ends in tragedy because both of
(02:23):
his parents are dead, so too one of his aunts,
and it was it's just a hell of a mess.
I mean, she's pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder.
And you know, he was the first first witness. There's
going to be many more. I think this is down
for five weeks, Heather, so there's going to be a
whole lot more of this absolutely intriguing story to come.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Tell me about this paramedic who's been giving some information
to the inquest on the BONDI stabbing.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, in the same way that the inquest is looking at,
you know, the deaths of these six people and the
injuries to the ten others. To our emergency services now
examining through this inquest, the responses to that dreadful Saturday
afternoon over in Sydney's eastern suburbs. What you've got here,
one single police officer, a police woman happened to be nearby.
(03:15):
Luckily happened to be nearby. She got there in time
to shoot Joel Coucy dead. But on the back of that,
police weren't one hundred percent sureheader was there a second
person going crazy in the shopping center with a knife.
The first report said, there's the guy going nuts with
a gun, so everybody's flocked there. Amy, I forget the
(03:36):
police officer's name, now my bad. But she's got there
in a heartbeat, neutralized the guy shot him dead, but
the police had to be satisfied there was no one
else going nuts in the center. That's why paramedics were
held outside. These are specialist paramedics who were out there
absolutely chafing. They wanted to get inside. They knew people
(03:56):
were dead, they knew people were injured, possibly dying. They
wanted to get in there, but police said, no, you
can't go in. So there's a vastly experienced paramedic has
been giving ever but it's nearly fifty years in the job,
a total specialist. But he's talked about there was no
personal protective gear available for the paramedics that day, a
rostering cockup, if you like, meant that basically meant there
(04:20):
were no specially trained emergency top level paramedics available. And
he's also suggested, listen, if this ever happens again, God forbid,
what about two of us go in with police police
escorting us to go and check on the injured people.
So these are some of the things that are now
being analyzed in this inquest. Was the response good enough?
(04:40):
And apparently there was nothing that could have been done
to save those who died and the ones who were
injured were got out in time. So to that extent,
I suppose the loved ones of those who died and
who were injured, I suppose there's a measure of comfort
there that no one passed away who wasn't going to
pass away anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Traggition from this paramedic that they would have gone in
even though the police are telling them not to. They
would have risked their own lives and gone it.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
That's the inference from the paramedic. I mean, look, they're
not there to be silly and you know, risk their
own lives. He's saying, listen, if it's necessary let's go
in with police. Police are armed, they're trying to shoot
people if they have to. We're not. We're there to
save life as best we possibly can. And I think
that's the tenor of his Testamenty.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Now, listen, how bad does this YouGov poll for Peter
dutn't he shot buddy?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Hell? It looks grim And if this comes true, and
don't forget you gov is the organization. It's not like
a news poll that's run by Murdock or the other side.
The nine newspaper network over here has its own polling system.
You gov is widely regarded as perhaps the most reliable
of these internet polling organizations. And if these figures come
(05:55):
true on Saturday, terrible news for Peter Dutton in the opposition.
The latest figure show label will not only be returned
on Saturday with an increased majority, it'll have a majority government.
It'll have maybe eighty four seats in the one hundred
and fifty seat parliament, the coalition down to below fifty
forty seven seats, the lowest percentage header if this comes
true since nineteen hundred and forty six. Now you and
(06:18):
I have spoken before. This campaign for the opposition has
been an absolute disaster. Policy black flips on the run,
Peter Dutton talked about living you know in Sydney on
the harbor there in the Prime Minister's houses. Instead of
talking about cost of living, it's cost of living dummy.
It should have been banged into was head in day one.
I mean they had all they had three years to
get ready for this and it's been an absolute shamozzle.
(06:41):
So if it comes true from long long faces on
the conservative side of politics here on Saturday Night, so.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Right, Maz, thanks very much, really appreciate it. Murray Old's
Australia correspondent.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to
news Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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