The son of two alleged murder victims and estranged husband of their accused killer has spent one and a half days in the witness box.
Simon Patterson pulled out of attending a deadly beef Wellington lunch the night before, saying he felt “too uncomfortable” to attend.
Yet as he detailed the traumatic aftermath of the death cap mushroom meal while sitting back in a courtroom chair dressed in suit and tie, he is yet to be pressed by either legal team on why that was so.
“Dad was substantially worse than mum, he was really struggling,” he told the jury on Thursday about seeing Don, discoloured and struggling to speak, at hospital the Sunday after the July 29, 2023, lunch.
“He wasn’t right…