Hello and welcome to Guardian Australia’s live coverage of the Erin Patterson trial, which is expected to restart at 10.30am this morning.

Patterson is accused of murdering her in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson by feeding them a beef wellington dish allegedly laced with death cap mushrooms in July 2023. The lunch took place in the regional Victorian town of Leongatha, in Australia’s south-east.

Patterson is also accused of attempting to murder Heather’s husband, Ian Wilkinson, who recovered from the lunch after becoming ill.

She has pleaded not guilty to murdering or attempting to murder the relatives of her estranged husband, Simon Patterson.

The trial is expected to run for five to six weeks. The supreme court trial is being held in Morwell in Victoria’s Gippsland region.