Video played to Victorian supreme court shows murder accused denying owning food dehydrator and describing ‘love’ for in-laws

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A video of Erin Patterson’s interview with police has been shown during her triple murder trial, with the footage showing her telling detectives she did not own a food dehydrator, despite them having just found a manual for one in her house.

Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning her four lunch guests – relatives of her estranged husband, Simon Patterson – with a beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha on 29 July 2023.