Media, court watchers, true crime fans and various other people including members of the prosecution are waiting around the small Latrobe Valley courthouse where jurors are still deliberating.

Once the jury reaches a verdict on whether Patterson is guilty or not guilty of murdering three lunch guests and attempting to murder Mr Wilkinson, parties including Justice Beale and the defence and prosecution will be notified.

Mr Wilkinson (pictured) has been present in person for most of the trial but hasn’t been sighted since the jury was retired to deliberate.

Simon Patterson, Erin’s estranged husband, has not been seen at the court since the early days of the trial which kicked off on April 28.

The next step after the jury alerts the court it has reached a verdict will be to give parties 15 minutes’ notice to return to the courtroom for the result.

As a result, most media and legal representatives are keeping very close to courtroom 4 at Morwell where the verdict will be delivered.

Most interested parties are in the courthouse, but some are waiting at a nearby café and other media are gathering outside.

The jury will hand their verdict to Justice Beale via his tipstaff and then they will be asked to confirm the verdict.

Justice Beale will then thank the jury for their service and the trial will be over.

Daily Mail Australia is on hand to publish the verdict as soon as it is given.

On Monday, before the jury retired, Justice Beale said sometimes people made mistakes, but the jury needed to decide if Patterson knew her statements were untrue when she made them.

He explained to the jury about circumstantial evidence and how it works.

Justice Beale told them circumstantial evidence was ‘no weaker than other evidence’.

But he warned the jury to consider all the evidence in the case.

‘Do not guess,’ Justice Beale warned.

Justice Beale then described the trial like a jigsaw puzzle, which prompted laughter from the jury.

Lead defence barrister Colin Mandy SC (pictured right with his legal team) criticised the jigsaw analogy during his closing address to the jury.

Justice Christopher Beale concluded his address to the jury – or ‘charge’ – on Monday before the jury retired to deliberate on the verdict.

On Monday afternoon, two jurors were balloted out leaving 12 to decide Erin Patterson’s (pictured) fate.

The jury deliberated all day Tuesday but no verdict was reached.

The five women and seven men will resume their deliberations this morning meaning there is a possibility a verdict in the murder trial, which has garnered worldwide attention, could come as early as today.

Patterson, 50, is accused of murdering her in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, after allegedly serving them a beef Wellington lunch made with death cap mushrooms.

Patterson is also accused of attempting to murder Heather’s husband, pastor Ian Wilkinson, who survived the lunch after spending several weeks in an intensive care unit.

The court heard Patterson’s estranged husband, Simon was also invited to the gathering at her home in Leongatha, in Victoria’s Gippsland region, but didn’t attend.

Witnesses told the jury that Patterson ate her serving from a smaller, differently-coloured plate to those of her guests, who ate off four grey plates.

Patterson told authorities she bought dried mushrooms from an unnamed Asian store in the Monash area of Melbourne, but health inspectors could find no evidence of this.