<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Jurors deciding mushroom cook Erin Patterson's fate will start their first full day of deliberations on whether she is guilty of triple murder.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The jury retired to consider its verdict on Monday afternoon as the Victorian Supreme Court trial reached its 10th week.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It will be up to the 12 jurors to decide whether Patterson, 50, intentionally served her lunch guests beef Wellingtons laced with death cap mushrooms.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/lung-cancer-screening-program-to-start-australia/c5c88f1a-598a-485a-a221-9d66f0d78ef7" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Cancer killer screening program which will save thousands launches today</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Her former in-laws Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister Heather, all died after consuming the lunch at Patterson's regional Victorian home on July 29, 2023.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Heather's husband Ian Wilkinson also ate the meal but survived after spending months in hospital.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Patterson claims it was all an accident and has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and one charge of attempted murder.</span><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/erin-patterson-mushroom-murder-trial-jury-enters-first-full-day-of-deliberations/2ecd0af7-51a9-42f2-91d0-e713a9a2e999" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The jury heard from more than 50 prosecution witnesses throughout the trial before Patterson entered the witness box for eight days.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The prosecution and defence then spent a week delivering their closing arguments, before Justice Christopher Beale provided his directions to the jury.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He said the jurors needed to consider whether the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt Patterson deliberately served death caps with the intention to kill her guests.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/east-coast-low-fears-of-bomb-cyclone-sydney-nsw-coast/058a06e0-ee22-472d-acd8-79afe1046280" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>'Vigorous' weather, up to 200mm of rain to lash east coast</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Justice Beale reminded the jurors if they held any doubts about Patterson's guilt, they must acquit her.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You cannot be satisfied that the accused is guilty of an offence if you have a reasonable doubt if she is guilty of the offence," he told the jury on Monday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The jury is being sequestered during the deliberations and will have to remain together until unanimous verdicts are reached on all charges.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Justice Beale reiterated that every juror must agree on the verdict, although it did not matter how each person reached their conclusion.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The jury can deliver its verdicts any time from 10.30am to 4.15pm on Monday through to Saturday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The jurors will still be sequestered on Sunday if they have not reached a verdict, but they will not have to deliberate.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Justice Beale reminded the jurors they 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