19/05/2025 01:40
The Guardian
Australian woman, 50, faces three murder charges and one charge of attempted murder over lethal mushroom lunch. Follow live updatesThe prosecutor, Jane Warren, turns to questioning about the website iNaturalist. McKenzie says she has a profile on the website she describes as a “citizen science” website. She says her profile name is “ChrisMck” and has contributed about 70 posts to the website, mainly about fungi. She says she has made two posts about sightings of death cap mushrooms. The first was in May 2022 in the gardens of the state parliament house under oak trees. The second was in Loch in April 2023. Under questioning by Lenthall, McKenzie says she was in Loch on 18 April to visit her daughter:We’d been for a walk ... my husband and I took our grandson and dog for a walk and we were on the oval sportsground at Loch, surrounded by oak trees. I observed some Amanita phalloides [death cap mushrooms] around the roots, or underneath the oak trees on the western side ... of the oval.Because of my training at the poisons centre, I’m very aware about the toxicity of the Amanita phalloides.We need to ascertain the circumstances, for instance it might be a toddler who has a nibble of a little brown mushroom and nothing more. Continue reading...
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