Prosecution argued yesterday phone tower evidence helped show Patterson had opportunity to source mushrooms Just a reminder that, before the court adjourned yesterday, we heard from crown prosecutor Jeremy McWilliams, responding to Patterson’s second ground of appeal. On this point, Patterson’s legal team argues that evidence about mobile phone towers and death cap mushroom sightings on the citizen science website iNaturalist should not have been heard at the trial because it was not relevant, or its value was outweighed by its unfair prejudice to Patterson. But McWilliams argued that the evidence was part of a collection which “taken together” showed Patterson had the opportunity to deliberately source death cap mushrooms before the fatal lunch.
The phone tower evidence, given by expert witness Dr Matthew Sorell, was used by the prosecution to draw an inference that Patterson could have visited two locations reported where death cap mushrooms had been sighted and reported on iNaturalist.
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