Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on the Erin Patterson trial beginning deliberations

An Australian jury has begun its first day of deliberations in the trial of Erin Patterson - accused of deliberately manufacturing a murderous mushroom lunch.

She's facing three murder charges and one of attempted murder over the toxic meal she served her estranged husband's relatives.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says there's just over an hour left of deliberating time today.

"4:15 Melbourne time is when they will wrap up - and they've back in the court every day, including Saturdays, so they can reach a verdict."

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Olli Peters and six pur Perth Life presenters with us
a Oli, Hey, Heather, how long do you reckon before
they come back with a verdict.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, I don't reckon it'll be today because if I
like another hour and a half or so to deliberate.
So four p fifteen Melbourne time is when they will
wrap up, and then they'll be back in the court
every day, including Saturdays, until they can reach a verdict.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
So look, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
I don't reckon it will be we'll have an answer today,
but hopefully we do it. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I think you're right, actually, because I reckon, after well,
how long have they been doing this? Nine weeks or something? Right,
And after nine weeks of waiting for that hotel, I reckon,
you want to at least get one night there.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
You want to go in and get the burger off
the service.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
You've been slogging it out for the state. You want
you want at least to have one soak in the bath,
maybe a dip tomorrow morning before the jury service in
the pool upstairs, one buffet breakfast and a burger off
the room service. And then I think you're okay to
go guilty.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, And look, then you know, if you're in that
gym tomorrow morning and one of the other jurors is there,
then you just, you know, just head for the door.
Is just get out because you don't want to be
on the treadmill with them having a conversation.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
You shouldn't have no.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Absolutely because you don't want to ruin it. Just in case.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Who goes to the gym by the way in a hotel?
What a stupid comment from me, Like, I've never made
the gym in a hotel.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
I'm just more room service bug of that. Well, I
have another burger I have.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I think sometimes, do you know, do you not even
travel across some time zones where you know you get
like like a proper a proper jet lagging where you're
the oh.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, when you go from like Sydney to Perth, like
that's a proper jet.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Honestly Australian honestly. But if you travel a good twelve hours,
like let's say you land yourself in Kenya or something,
and then you know it's nighttime when it's hapss to
be daytime, a good gym session will sort of just
try to get you Ccadian rhythm back.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Do you know what I mean exactly, if you're in
Cape Town, you can just walk up to Table Mountain
or you know, cycle down to the Capeer good hope,
Oh fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
How good is that? Okay, Now, what's the Foreign minister
to in Washington.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
She's on a way, Pennywong to go and visits her
counterparts in the United States. She's on a mission to
patch up the faltering relationship between our countries.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
So obviously, you know, first and foremost of this.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Meeting is about UCUS, so to make sure that we're
all still on the same page with UCAST, but also
to try and strike some sort of trade deal as
well with the United States. So she's got a one
on one meeting with a US counterpart, Marco Rubio, and
other nations there from that quad alliance, a US, Japan, India,
obviously Australia to join that conversation.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
So this is important, This is crucial.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Obviously, Anthony Albanezi failed to have a one on one
with Donald Trump at the G seven. He didn't get
a NATO. So this conversation is very important between our nations.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
You guys getting that rain.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, we are both sides of the country.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
So we've actually just seen the sees in New South
Aal's warn that come Wednesday, they're really in for it,
and that's right up and down.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
The Eastern seaboard.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
They're expected to get about one hundred mills of rain
this week. Over here in Wa, we're going to get
about fifty mills of rain this week. So Australia's copying it.
And I will never complain about the rain because we
need it in this country. But when you're getting it
in that sort of volume, heather, there's obviously warnings that
need to be heated. And I just hope nobody's going
to be in a situation where places are flooding again

(03:02):
and river banks are bursting.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
But we will see how the week unfaults.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
So China's told you guys not to spend any more
on defense, which obviously means that you'll you'll listen to them.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Oh yeah, well we probably. I mean anything to go by.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I went to the opening of the Terra Cotta Warriors
here in Perth last week. That's they're pretty specky. We're
on our feet for ninety minutes as the Wa government
just kissed the ass of the Chinese Communist government for
that period of time. It was honestly the most nauseating
thing I have ever been to my point going back
into this is that Anthony Albanezi is off to China

(03:35):
next month to catch up with his counterpart there in China.
And you know, big editorial in the daily newspaper today,
the Australian, saying, as you just said, don't spend that
money on defense, ye, spend that money on social services
and the little friends here, let's all just hold hands and.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Submarine through your sea and shot some shot some in
the sky. You don't mind. We're just show enough.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Honestly, I know that this is beyond me, but our
diplomatic global relations just needs a little bit of work,
and just the kiss ass nature of it is just nauseating.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, do you know what I'm going to put it
to you though, It's just a cultural difference because I
think I think they love that stuff in China. It's
just too showy for Western tastes.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
That's maybe just give me a seat though, I'm gonna
want a stand for ninety minutes and listen to all
this crap.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh there's your problem, okay, Oliver, thank you. I wondered
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