Court hears testimony from a tip manager who found a food dehydrator in an e-waste bin days after CCTV showed a woman disposing of a similar item. Prosecutors allege Erin Patterson dumped the dehydrator, which contained her fingerprints and traces of death cap mushrooms, to conceal evidence after serving poisoned beef wellingtons that killed three people.

• Erin Patterson faces three murder charges and one attempted murder charge
• Don and Gail Patterson (both 70) and Heather Wilkinson (66) died after the lunch
• Ian Wilkinson survived after critical hospitalization
• Tip manager Darren Canty testified about finding a Sunbeam dehydrator in an e-waste bin
• CCTV shows a woman in a red vehicle disposing of an item at the transfer station
• Defence acknowledges Patterson disposed of the dehydrator but claims it was due to panic
• Patterson admits lying about the dehydrator but denies deliberately seeking death cap mushrooms

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