The ABC’s Mushroom Case Daily, a podcast covering every day in the trial of alleged triple-murderer Erin Patterson, appears to have breached a suppression order aimed at protecting certain witnesses, with the relevant episode live for over 24 hours and downloaded by tens of thousands of listeners.
The ABC show, hosted by ABC reporters Stephen Stockwell and Rachael Brown, is currently the most listened to podcast in the country according to Apple’s podcast charts. New episodes are released every weekday evening and summarise the day’s events in court.
This week, Patterson stunned those following the case by taking to the stand herself and offering her own testimony. As a result, Mushroom Case Daily, along with other daily podcasts covering the trial published by The Age and Nine, the Herald Sun and True Crime Australia, and The Daily Mail, have covered her evidence for their listeners.
All those podcasts, along with all other coverage of the trial, are subject to strict suppression orders prohibiting the names of certain witnesses from being published. Those are the orders that appear to have be breached by the ABC.
