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I’m so enthralled by the mushroom lady’s trial. Using the different coloured plates to hers is sooo suss. But I don’t know, all this evidence so far reported seems circumstantial.
How could it be anything but circumstantial? It's rare in any murder trial to have direct evidence, and poisoning is inherently a hidden and secretive crime. Unless she actually videoed herself picking poisonous mushrooms, putting them the meal, and saying she know's they're poisonous I can't see any way you could have direct evidence.
Circumstantial evidence is not bad evidence. Once you have a reasonable amount of different bits of evidence all pointing in the same direction it becomes very solid evidence.
I agree with you. But circumstantial evidence is good evidence when it leads to no other reasonable explanation besides intent to kill. I haven’t heard of any evidence (so far at least) that goes beyond the accused acting suss. There’s weeks of this trial to go, I’m only referring to what’s come out so far. Much more to the story to come.