Patterson, who has denied any wrongdoing, is being questioned by police over the 29 July family lunch in the rural Australian town of Leongatha

Victorian police have arrested Erin Patterson in relation to the suspected mushroom poisoning deaths in regional Australia.

  • idiomaddict@feddit.de
    42·
    1 year ago

    That’s even grosser. How should the newspaper know or anyone care if a person is female, have they interviewed her doctor or taken a dna sample?

    • maniacalmanicmaniaEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      What I meant was I think the writer was quoting the police or other similar department from a press conference. It sounds like police press conference legalese. I don’t see it in the article anywhere though so I’m not sure where the quote - if it is a quote - came from.