Follow Daily Mail ‘s live coverage of accused mushroom chef Erin Patterson‘s murder trial at Latrobe Valley Magistrates’ Court in Morwell, Victoria.
Lead defence lawyer Colin Mandy SC has asked the jury to consider why Patterson would want to kill her lunch guests.
He said ‘any thoughts of rights or wrongs’ wasn’t evidence and to ‘put all that aside’.
‘As a judge what’s in your heart has no relevance at all in considering the facts,’ Mr Mandy said.
Mr Mandy urged the jury to rely on the evidence.
‘Why on earth would anyone want to kill these people?’ he asked.
‘Why would Erin Patterson want to kill them? Because of a brief period of tension in December of 2022?
‘Which had absolutely nothing to do with Ian and Heather (pictured).’
Mr Mandy said Patterson had ‘absolutely no reason at all’ to hurt Don and Gail either and there was ‘an absence of a motive’.