Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updates

• Who are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?

Our justice and courts reporter, Nino Bucci, was in the court room in Morwell last week for the first week of Erin Patterson’s murder trial.

Catch up on his report on the first week of the trial:

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updates

• Who are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?
• ‘Important you’re all there’: Erin Patterson urged husband to reconsider skipping mushroom lunch, murder trial hears

Jurors have been shown messages between Simon and Erin between 14-15 October 2022 exchanged on the app Signal.

Simon says there was “a lot of tension” in his relationship with Erin at this point. He says her relationship with his parents was also tense.

Hey are you coming to mum’s Birthday lunch.

I’m not too sure how your dad could have been confused..... Seems that my invite tomorrow is a bit of an afterthought and not even from your parents so I might pass thanks...

What I recon is everybody forgot to actually invite me to this thing and I feel very very hurt about that..

I’m sorry for shouting at you this afternoon. I was feeling very hurt and lashed out... I’d like to not do that again.

As the trial over the deadly 2023 beef wellington lunch continues in the Victorian supreme court, here’s what you need to know about the people involved

• Erin Patterson trial – live updates

A fatal family lunch in regional Victoria is at the centre of a high-profile murder trial that is under way in the state’s supreme court.

Erin Patterson is accused of murdering her estranged husband Simon Patterson’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister and Simon’s aunt, Heather Wilkinson, by feeding them a meal of beef wellington laced with death cap mushrooms in July 2023.

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her house in South Gippsland in 2023. Follow live updates

• Who are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?
• ‘Important you’re all there’: Erin Patterson urged husband to reconsider skipping mushroom lunch, murder trial hears

After this, Patterson pushed for the pair to equally split the costs of their children’s school fees.

Simon says he had been advised by the “child support people” not to do this because these fees would be covered in his payments to Patterson.