Aug 21, 2026 · 34 min · 10 segments
Erin Patterson's interest in foraging for wild mushrooms was at the centre of the second day of her appeal against her convictions for murder and attempted murder, which she has always denied, as…
Penelope LierschHostErin PearsonHostWe don't see a lot of emotion in the courtroom when you've got two ends of the bar table facing three very senior Court of Appeal justices.
They're always looking at this stage of the case at legal technicalities where potential miscarriages of justice may have occurred.
It's not necessarily these big, dramatic, intense, emotional, captivating speeches really that we heard at the end of the trial when both the prosecution and the defence were addressing the jury.
You've got also, I think it was mentioned in yesterday's episode, a lot of back and forth between these three Court of Appeal justices.
They really are looking down on... on everyone and back and forth asking questions.
You've then got the prosecution and Erin Patterson's legal team at opposite ends of the bar table.
They've got their instructing solicitors, again, passing notes like we saw during the trial, trying to find different case analyses and all sorts of information to raise as the three Court of Appeal justices are really firing questions at whoever is speaking to them.
And it's extremely technical because as we heard quite a bit yesterday, they're referring to page 1463 of the transcript, paragraph this, line this.
And I know certainly something we will talk about in a moment where they were talking about Erin Patterson's police interview.
That was very helpful because that... jogged our memories to go back to, well, that's the specific part they're speaking about, not the entire police interview, just this bit.
And I think when you're mentioning that it's not these big, dramatic, emotive speeches, as we often see legal arguments, even when they are at that pivotal moment of closing a case, they have to be relatively dry, purely to sit within the rules.
And Erin Patterson also, people have been asking me, what's her reaction? We can see her in the courtroom.
People who might be watching the live stream publicly, they can't see her, but she's beamed up on a large screen for those who are in the court sitting from jail at sort of a white table wearing a blue jumper.
She does, as we probably mentioned many times in the trial part of the series, lots of blinking, sometimes closing her eyes, this and that.
It's not a sort of situation where just because you're on a link... like someone working from home, you can go for a wander around.
We don't see a lot of emotion in the courtroom when you've got two ends of the bar table facing three very senior Court of Appeal justices.
They're always looking at this stage of the case at legal technicalities where potential miscarriages of justice may have occurred.
It's not necessarily these big, dramatic, intense, emotional, captivating speeches really that we heard at the end of the trial when both the prosecution and the defence were addressing the jury.
You've got also, I think it was mentioned in yesterday's episode, a lot of back and forth between these three Court of Appeal justices.
They really are looking down on... on everyone and back and forth asking questions.
You've then got the prosecution and Erin Patterson's legal team at opposite ends of the bar table.
They've got their instructing solicitors, again, passing notes like we saw during the trial, trying to find different case analyses and all sorts of information to raise as the three Court of Appeal justices are really firing questions at whoever is speaking to them.
And it's extremely technical because as we heard quite a bit yesterday, they're referring to page 1463 of the transcript, paragraph this, line this.
And I know certainly something we will talk about in a moment where they were talking about Erin Patterson's police interview.
That was very helpful because that... jogged our memories to go back to, well, that's the specific part they're speaking about, not the entire police interview, just this bit.
And I think when you're mentioning that it's not these big, dramatic, emotive speeches, as we often see legal arguments, even when they are at that pivotal moment of closing a case, they have to be relatively dry, purely to sit within the rules.
And Erin Patterson also, people have been asking me, what's her reaction? We can see her in the courtroom.
People who might be watching the live stream publicly, they can't see her, but she's beamed up on a large screen for those who are in the court sitting from jail at sort of a white table wearing a blue jumper.
She does, as we probably mentioned many times in the trial part of the series, lots of blinking, sometimes closing her eyes, this and that.
It's not a sort of situation where just because you're on a link... like someone working from home, you can go for a wander around.
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