Jacqueline Patrick tried to poison her husband twice in October and on Christmas Day in 2013.
Photo: Metropolitan Police
[From article]
A British woman who tried to kill her husband by poisoning his Christmas drink of sparkling fruit wine with antifreeze was jailed for 15 years Monday after being undone by a spelling mistake and a trail of text messages.
Following family arguments, Jacqueline Patrick, 55, twice tried to kill her husband Douglas, 70, in October and on Christmas Day 2013, by spiking his cherry Lambrini, a drink favored by teenagers looking to get drunk on a low budget.
“Perhaps most shocking of all was the note she gave to the London Ambulance Service purporting to be from her husband, stating that he did not wish to be resuscitated,” Detective Inspector Tracey Miller, of London’s Metropolitan Police, said in a statement.
The forged note showed a misspelling of the word dignity as “dignerty.” When police later asked her to write the word, Jacqueline Patrick made the same mistake.
Katherine Patrick goaded her mother into poisoning her father.
Photo: Metropolitan Police
[From article]
A British woman who tried to kill her husband by poisoning his Christmas drink of sparkling fruit wine with antifreeze was jailed for 15 years Monday after being undone by a spelling mistake and a trail of text messages.
Following family arguments, Jacqueline Patrick, 55, twice tried to kill her husband Douglas, 70, in October and on Christmas Day 2013, by spiking his cherry Lambrini, a drink favored by teenagers looking to get drunk on a low budget.
“Perhaps most shocking of all was the note she gave to the London Ambulance Service purporting to be from her husband, stating that he did not wish to be resuscitated,” Detective Inspector Tracey Miller, of London’s Metropolitan Police, said in a statement.
The forged note showed a misspelling of the word dignity as “dignerty.” When police later asked her to write the word, Jacqueline Patrick made the same mistake.
Katherine Patrick goaded her mother into poisoning her father.
Photo: Metropolitan Police
The couple’s daughter Katherine, 21, was sentenced to three years in jail after admitting to inciting her mother to poison her father, while Jacqueline pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder at the family’s south London home.
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She might have gotten away with poisoning her husband if not for one spelling mistake
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New York Post
November 23, 2015 | 1:31pm
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She might have gotten away with poisoning her husband if not for one spelling mistake
By Reuters
New York Post
November 23, 2015 | 1:31pm
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