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    An Australian jury's been told how Erin Patterson sourced deadly mushrooms, grinded them into a powder and concealed them in Beef Wellingtons to poison her lunch guests

    An Australian jury's been told how Erin Patterson sourced deadly mushrooms, grinded them into a powder and concealed them in Beef Wellingtons to poison her lunch guests


    She denies the allegations.

    Crown prosecutor Nanette Rogers has begun her closing address in Patterson's triple-murder trial in the Victorian Supreme Court.

    She began by claiming Patterson carried out a "calculated deception".

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