Great turn if judge acts after shock tip about one of the jury members in the Patterson process

The judge in the There in Patterson Trial has fired a jury member in the middle of the process after he has received new information about him.

Justice Christopher Beale was warned that the man had discussed the trial outside the court.

Justice Beale brought the jury late on Thursday and explained why the jury member would no longer sit next to them for the duration of the process.

“I’m not going to ask you any questions, I just want to give you some information,” he said.

“Based on Article 43 of the Juries Act, I have the authority to discharge a jury member if it seems to me that a jury member should not continue to act as a jury member.”

“A little ago I fired jury member 84, I did this because, and as I explained it, I received information that he had discussed the case with family and friends, unlike my instructions.”

He told the jury that the information he received about the jury member seemed ‘credible’ and therefore had no other choice than to let him go.

Justice Beale said that his quick action should act as a warning for the remaining jury members.

“I want to remind you of my instructions that you should only discuss the case with your colleague jury members in the privacy of the jury room (s) not discussing it with someone else, it is vital for the legal person,” he said.

Justice Beale described the incident as an ‘unfortunate note’ and insisted on the jury members to continue to perform their jobs diligently.

‘I hurry to add that I did not make a positive finding that jury member 84 discussed the case with family and friends, but I couldn’t reject any possibilities he had.

“As I said, I was of the opinion that it was a reasonable opportunity that he had violated my instructions,” he said.

‘I instructed him not to contact you directly or indirectly, and I also give you the similar direction.

‘You should not contact him directly or indirectly while this test continues, good.

“On that unfortunate note we are now ready to resume the test.”

The original jury of 15 people was selected from a pool of 120 people from and around the Gippland area where the process takes place.

Although the loss of the jury member comes a major inconvenience, the process only needs 12 jury members to make it until the end.

The remaining jury members will then be voted.

When the trial was restored, the jury of Child Protection Katrina Cripps heard.

Mrs. Cripps told the jury that she believed that Patterson had eaten ‘Half’ from her portion of Beef Wellington during the fatal lunch.

Mrs. Cripps had spoken with Patterson in the days after lunch.

“I don’t believe she ate it all,” said Mrs. Cripps.

Mrs. Cripps said Patterson told her that the lunch guests chose their plates and that she took the last one.

Patterson also indicated that she put two plates aside for her children.

Patterson has argued not guilty of killing her alienated husband Simon Patterson’s parents Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson.

They died after Consumer Death Cap Mushrooms served in a beef Wellington during lunch in her Leongatha house in the east of the state.

Pastor Ian Wilkinson was the only guest who survived the poisonous lunch.

He appeared on Thursday in the front of the courtroom after he had closed his own evidence in the opening days of the trial.

Mrs. Cripps said that on 2 August she visited the children and Patterson’s alienated husband Simon in the Monash Children’s Hospital.

The jury heard that Mrs. Cripps said she spoke with Patterson at 2.55 pm – what was the first time she had ever spoken to her.

She said Patterson told her that she had had the children during the week and Simon had them during the weekend.

Patterson told Mrs. Cripps that the children spoke that they no longer wanted to stay in their father during the weekend because he ‘slept a lot’.

Patterson said that Simon had become ‘mean and filthy’ after a problem with child benefit was discussed, the jury heard.

Mrs. Cripps said Patterson told her that Simon had been ‘controlling and emotionally offensive’, so she doubted her ability as a mother and her self -esteem dented.

The jury also heard from doctor Dimitri Gerostamoulos, head of forensic science to the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and the most important toxicologist of the state.

Dr. Gerostamoulos said the court that only three spoons of the death of the dead place would be sufficient to kill an adult who weighs 70 kg.

The jury heard the devastating effects that had consumed the death of caps on the body.

Dr. Gerostamoulos said that poisoning victims would be overrun, experienced diarrhea and gradually get worse without treatment.

He told the court that the body could not process the toxin because it would be a normal medicine.

Dr. Gerostamoulos told the jury that no trace of the toxin had been found in Patterson or her children.

Neither was it found in Heather Wilkinson or Gail Patterson.

However, it was found in Don and Ian Wilkinson.

After lunch, the jury was shown images of two beef Wellington who had been picked up from Patterterson’s house.

An analysis of the content found mushroom pasta in the Wellingtons with traces of Beta -Amanitine – the business card of the Scrapping Chairs.

Different samples of the Dehydrator tested positively for both Alfa and Beta Amanitine.

The process continues.