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Lead defence lawyer Colin Mandy SC said the prosecution’s own expert witness Professor Andrew Bersten, an intensive care specialist with 35 years experience, contradicted the Crown’s assertion Patterson was never sick.
The jury heard Professor Bersten examined Patterson’s medical records and various test results from examinations taken while she was in hospital following the lunch.
Mr Mandy said Professor Bersten believed Patterson had a ‘diarrhoea illness’.
‘Taken all together, yes, that would be my conclusion,’ Mr Mandy said Professor Bersten previously told the jury.