Erin Patterson, the woman who cooked the fatal mushroom lunch, was also hospitalised after eating the meal. In a written statement to police, the 48-year-old revealed where she bought the mushrooms from, months before preparing the dish. MORE: 9News
, Patterson said she too had been hospitalised after the lunch with bad stomach pains and diarrhoea.
Chief executive Lou Sparkes said a fifth person presented at Leongatha Hospital on July 30 with suspected food poisoning later returned to the health service and was discharged via transfer to Monash Hospital. "I am hoping this statement might help in some way. I believe if people understood the background more, they would not be so quick to rush to judgement.
Police last week seized a food dehydrator from the Koonwarra rubbish transfer station, now confirmed to belong to Patterson.
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