05:22 BST
Katy Watson
reporting from Morwell
There was lots of information to digest this morning – mostly focussed on the fateful meal of July 2023.
Erin Patterson’s lawyer addressed some of the lies she told police in the days after inviting her relatives around.
Her justification for saying she had ovarian cancer when she didn’t was because she was embarrassed about telling her family that she was in fact planning on weight-loss surgery. She also admitted her family’s concern about her health felt good and she didn’t want that attention to stop.
She also spoke more about binge-eating, which she touched upon on yesterday. She said she ate two-thirds of a cake that her mother-in-law had brought after the fateful lunch – and then made herself sick.
The 50-year-old also addressed the issue of the dinner plates she used to serve the beef Wellington.
Earlier on in the trial we heard that Heather Wilkinson had questioned why she had given the guests different coloured and sized plates to the one she ate off. Ms Patterson said there were no assigned seating arrangements or plates.
In just a few hours, Ms Patterson and her lawyer covered a lot of ground. And now the court is back again.