June 4, 2025 • 8 mins
A new search for Madeleine McCann is underway in Portugal, more than 18 years after the British toddler disappeared.
There's been a death-cap concession from accused killer cook Erin Patterson on her second day in the witness box.
A devastating algae bloom has washed into the Coorong Lagoon, south of Adelaide.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
You.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Search for Madeline McCann is underway in Portugal, more than
eighteen years after the British toddler disappeared. Let's go live
now to Europe correspondent Jacqueline Robson. Who's in Portugal, Jackie.
Where have the authorities focusing their search this time, Genmal.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
They've spent the day on private property behind me. It's
about a ten minute drive from the holiday apartment where
Madeline McCann went missing all.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Those years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
They're focusing their efforts on a dilapidated farmhouse. They've been
using shovels and chainsaws trying to get through the roots
and undergrowth to the soil beneath. We have seen some
of that soil boxed up and removed from the hillside.
Firefighters have also been brought in to focus on two
separate wells on the property. They're trying to find any
(00:52):
clue that Madeline McCann was here, either her remains or
some other clue like her pajamas. We know that police
have brought in advanced technology geo radars that can search
fifteen feet below the ground. That's making these digs all
the more precise. Many have described this as a last
ditch effort. We know that the one and only suspect,
(01:15):
Christian Bruckner, remains in prison for a separate crime, but
he could be released from prison in just a few months,
so authorities are trying to find that evidence where they
can pin this on him. He has denied any involvement
in the toddler's disappearance. We haven't heard from Madeline McCann's parents,
Kate or Jerry about this new search, the first major
(01:36):
search since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Emma Jackie, thank you to Breaking News Now and police
in Sydney's West right now hunting three men armed to
the machete. That's after a horror home invasion. Officers say
the men broke into a home at Warrington before two am,
attacking a fifty five year old man with the machete
and a hammer. The man was taken to hospital, though
(02:00):
men are still at large. There's been a death cap
concession from accused killer cook Aaron Patterson. On her second
day in the witness box, she was questioned on the
ingredients of the lethal lunch, fake cancer claims, and how
COVID lockdowns shaped her interest in wild mushrooms.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
In the last fifteen minutes of today's evidence in the
mushroom murder trial, new revelations from the accused killer, Aaron Patterson,
accepting there were death cap mushrooms in the beef wellingtons
she prepared for four family members in twenty twenty three.
Do you accept that there must have been death cap
mushrooms in it?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I do. Miss Pattison also admitted she owned a dehydrator
and had used it to preserve wild mushrooms after learning
to forage fungi during the twenty twenty COVID lockdowns. When
asked what she did with the mushroom she picked in
May twenty twenty three, the month of the fatal lunch,
she said, I took them home, cleaned them, sliced them.
If I didn't think I wanted to use them that day,
(02:59):
I would them and put them in the pantry, later
explaining generally, I would put them in a container. I
already had going with Wooly's mushrooms, so I would just
dry them and put them in a container, telling the
jury she remembered putting wild dehydrated mushrooms into a container
that already contained other dried mushrooms a month or two
before the lethal lunch. Juris have previously been shown the
(03:23):
accused killer's record of interview, where she told police she'd
never foraged for mushrooms and didn't own a dehydrator. Then,
when asked have you ever been diagnosed with ovarian cancer,
she replied I have not. And have you ever had
a needle biopsy on a lump on your elbow? She answered,
I've never had a needle biopsy anywhere. The trial had
(03:45):
earlier been told she'd been referred to a biopsy in
a message to her mother in law, and she'd claimed
a cancer diagnosis during the beef Wellington lunch. Today, miss
Pattison described her relationship with each of the lunch guests,
three of whom died in hospital following suspected death cap
mushroom poisoning of her in laws, Dawn and Gale. Miss
(04:06):
Patterson said she'd wanted her children to live near their
Nana and Papa, biting back tears as she explained that
even after her marriage breakdown, she was just their daughter
in law and they just continued to love her. As
stellegreypink seven News.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Nearly three million workers on the minimum wage will receive
a pay rise of three and a half percent from
next month. That's after the Fair Work Commission handed down
its annual decision. The rise takes the hourly minimum wage
from twenty four dollars and ten cents up eighty four
cents to just under twenty five dollars.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
This decision today will be welcomed by people who keep
our economy going, the essential workers who need this wage increase.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It takes full time wages to nine hundred and forty
eight dollars a week and annual pay packets to more
than forty nine thousand. Melbourne Victory has slammed the heavy
police presence at last Saturday's A League Grand Final, calling
it unacceptable and accusing Victoria Police of creating fear amongst
families and fans. Victory chairman John Dovestan addressed supporters in
(05:14):
an open letter, describing the scenes on Swan Street before
the match as overwhelming and inappropriate. The club has called
for a joint investigation with the Victorian Government and Victoria
Police to prevent events like this from being repeated. Firefighters
in Sydney's West have taken the upper hand against a
massive blaze at a commercial building at Billawood. The far
(05:37):
started around eight o'clock, spreading throughout the building filled with
storage and machinery. Nobody was hurt. There's growing concern over
the future of Brisbane's planned Olympic stadium and just how
much green space it will take up. Opponents to Victoria
Parks say they've had experts do early analysis creating artist impressions.
(05:58):
From what they have found.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
We're estimating, very conservatively, fifty eight percent of the park
will be used and impacted by stadium constructions and associated
Olympic infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Meantime, the state opposition is sounding the alarm over a
lack of consideration for affordable housing as a legacy of
the Games. A twenty year old Sydney man has been
charged over a shocking brawl at a soccer game in
the city's south. Police say a massive fight involving up
to forty players and fans broke out at the Peakhurst
(06:31):
game on Saturday. There were no reports of any injuries.
The twenty year old has been charged with a fray
and will face court next month. A devastating algill bloom
has washed into the Kurang Lagoon south of Adelaide. Hundreds
of dead worms and tiny fish have shown up in
the shallows with experts worn in. The toxic algae may
(06:53):
disrupt the already delicate food chain.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
There isn't anything the lives or grows in the water
of the Kurung that is safe from this. It has
an endless source of food which is full of basically
the hungry jecks for the algie world.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
The bloom has plagued South Australian coastline since March and
is now breeding like an underwater wildfighter fire in the Kurun.
One lucky Victorian is waking up this morning completely unaware
they became a millionaire overnight. We told of Victorian bought
the winning ticket in last night's seventy million OS lotto.
(07:31):
That's the equal second biggest win in the game's thirty
one year history. Officials from the lot don't have the
complete contact details for the player who bought their ticket online,
so if you think it could be you do check
your ticket and checking Wednesday's weather now putler cloudy in
Brisbane and twenty two showers in Sydney and fifteen cloud
(07:51):
clearing in Camber and thirteen a shower or two in
Melbourne and fourteen there's a possible shower in Hobart and
twelve mostly sunny in Adelaide and sixteen showers and a
storm in Perth and twenty one are mostly sunny in
Darwin and thirty two
You.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Search for Madeline McCann is underway in Portugal, more than
eighteen years after the British toddler disappeared. Let's go live
now to Europe correspondent Jacqueline Robson. Who's in Portugal, Jackie.
Where have the authorities focusing their search this time, Genmal.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
They've spent the day on private property behind me. It's
about a ten minute drive from the holiday apartment where
Madeline McCann went missing all.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Those years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
They're focusing their efforts on a dilapidated farmhouse. They've been
using shovels and chainsaws trying to get through the roots
and undergrowth to the soil beneath. We have seen some
of that soil boxed up and removed from the hillside.
Firefighters have also been brought in to focus on two
separate wells on the property. They're trying to find any
(00:52):
clue that Madeline McCann was here, either her remains or
some other clue like her pajamas. We know that police
have brought in advanced technology geo radars that can search
fifteen feet below the ground. That's making these digs all
the more precise. Many have described this as a last
ditch effort. We know that the one and only suspect,
(01:15):
Christian Bruckner, remains in prison for a separate crime, but
he could be released from prison in just a few months,
so authorities are trying to find that evidence where they
can pin this on him. He has denied any involvement
in the toddler's disappearance. We haven't heard from Madeline McCann's parents,
Kate or Jerry about this new search, the first major
(01:36):
search since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Emma Jackie, thank you to Breaking News Now and police
in Sydney's West right now hunting three men armed to
the machete. That's after a horror home invasion. Officers say
the men broke into a home at Warrington before two am,
attacking a fifty five year old man with the machete
and a hammer. The man was taken to hospital, though
(02:00):
men are still at large. There's been a death cap
concession from accused killer cook Aaron Patterson. On her second
day in the witness box, she was questioned on the
ingredients of the lethal lunch, fake cancer claims, and how
COVID lockdowns shaped her interest in wild mushrooms.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
In the last fifteen minutes of today's evidence in the
mushroom murder trial, new revelations from the accused killer, Aaron Patterson,
accepting there were death cap mushrooms in the beef wellingtons
she prepared for four family members in twenty twenty three.
Do you accept that there must have been death cap
mushrooms in it?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I do. Miss Pattison also admitted she owned a dehydrator
and had used it to preserve wild mushrooms after learning
to forage fungi during the twenty twenty COVID lockdowns. When
asked what she did with the mushroom she picked in
May twenty twenty three, the month of the fatal lunch,
she said, I took them home, cleaned them, sliced them.
If I didn't think I wanted to use them that day,
(02:59):
I would them and put them in the pantry, later
explaining generally, I would put them in a container. I
already had going with Wooly's mushrooms, so I would just
dry them and put them in a container, telling the
jury she remembered putting wild dehydrated mushrooms into a container
that already contained other dried mushrooms a month or two
before the lethal lunch. Juris have previously been shown the
(03:23):
accused killer's record of interview, where she told police she'd
never foraged for mushrooms and didn't own a dehydrator. Then,
when asked have you ever been diagnosed with ovarian cancer,
she replied I have not. And have you ever had
a needle biopsy on a lump on your elbow? She answered,
I've never had a needle biopsy anywhere. The trial had
(03:45):
earlier been told she'd been referred to a biopsy in
a message to her mother in law, and she'd claimed
a cancer diagnosis during the beef Wellington lunch. Today, miss
Pattison described her relationship with each of the lunch guests,
three of whom died in hospital following suspected death cap
mushroom poisoning of her in laws, Dawn and Gale. Miss
(04:06):
Patterson said she'd wanted her children to live near their
Nana and Papa, biting back tears as she explained that
even after her marriage breakdown, she was just their daughter
in law and they just continued to love her. As
stellegreypink seven News.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Nearly three million workers on the minimum wage will receive
a pay rise of three and a half percent from
next month. That's after the Fair Work Commission handed down
its annual decision. The rise takes the hourly minimum wage
from twenty four dollars and ten cents up eighty four
cents to just under twenty five dollars.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
This decision today will be welcomed by people who keep
our economy going, the essential workers who need this wage increase.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It takes full time wages to nine hundred and forty
eight dollars a week and annual pay packets to more
than forty nine thousand. Melbourne Victory has slammed the heavy
police presence at last Saturday's A League Grand Final, calling
it unacceptable and accusing Victoria Police of creating fear amongst
families and fans. Victory chairman John Dovestan addressed supporters in
(05:14):
an open letter, describing the scenes on Swan Street before
the match as overwhelming and inappropriate. The club has called
for a joint investigation with the Victorian Government and Victoria
Police to prevent events like this from being repeated. Firefighters
in Sydney's West have taken the upper hand against a
massive blaze at a commercial building at Billawood. The far
(05:37):
started around eight o'clock, spreading throughout the building filled with
storage and machinery. Nobody was hurt. There's growing concern over
the future of Brisbane's planned Olympic stadium and just how
much green space it will take up. Opponents to Victoria
Parks say they've had experts do early analysis creating artist impressions.
(05:58):
From what they have found.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
We're estimating, very conservatively, fifty eight percent of the park
will be used and impacted by stadium constructions and associated
Olympic infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Meantime, the state opposition is sounding the alarm over a
lack of consideration for affordable housing as a legacy of
the Games. A twenty year old Sydney man has been
charged over a shocking brawl at a soccer game in
the city's south. Police say a massive fight involving up
to forty players and fans broke out at the Peakhurst
(06:31):
game on Saturday. There were no reports of any injuries.
The twenty year old has been charged with a fray
and will face court next month. A devastating algill bloom
has washed into the Kurang Lagoon south of Adelaide. Hundreds
of dead worms and tiny fish have shown up in
the shallows with experts worn in. The toxic algae may
(06:53):
disrupt the already delicate food chain.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
There isn't anything the lives or grows in the water
of the Kurung that is safe from this. It has
an endless source of food which is full of basically
the hungry jecks for the algie world.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
The bloom has plagued South Australian coastline since March and
is now breeding like an underwater wildfighter fire in the Kurun.
One lucky Victorian is waking up this morning completely unaware
they became a millionaire overnight. We told of Victorian bought
the winning ticket in last night's seventy million OS lotto.
(07:31):
That's the equal second biggest win in the game's thirty
one year history. Officials from the lot don't have the
complete contact details for the player who bought their ticket online,
so if you think it could be you do check
your ticket and checking Wednesday's weather now putler cloudy in
Brisbane and twenty two showers in Sydney and fifteen cloud
(07:51):
clearing in Camber and thirteen a shower or two in
Melbourne and fourteen there's a possible shower in Hobart and
twelve mostly sunny in Adelaide and sixteen showers and a
storm in Perth and twenty one are mostly sunny in
Darwin and thirty two
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