Deadly mushroom cook weighed fatal dose on kitchen scales, says prosecutor
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A prosecutor has said that a deadly mushroom cook weighed the fatal dose on kitchen scales before slipping it to a customer. Ian Paton, 67, died after eating a wild mushroom omelet at the home of Anthony Falco, 64, who is accused of murder. It is alleged that Falco picked the death cap mushrooms from nearby woods and weighed the deadly dose on kitchen scales before adding them to a meal for his friend. James Daw, prosecuting, told Winchester Crown Court that Falco picked two mushrooms and weighed them on digital kitchen scales, saying to the jury: "The defendant then used those scales, having weighed the mushrooms, to weigh the rice to accompany the curry that the two of them would eat that night."
The scales, which had only been purchased the week before, were then dried and cleaned. The prosecutor told the court that Falco gave different stories to those who intervened when Mr Paton became ill, and to the police.
He first told ambulance crews that Mr Paton had eaten the mushrooms in a curry without his knowledge, but later said he had picked and weighed the mushrooms and put them in the fridge. He told police that he had accidentally dropped the mushrooms into the omelet pan after they rolled off the side of the scales. The defendant claims that Mr Paton knew the mushrooms were in the meal and that he had helped prepare it.
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