UK: Wife who poisoned husband is foiled by spelling mistake

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'A British woman who tried to kill her husband by poisoning his Christmas drink of sparkling fruit wine with anti-freeze was jailed for 15 years on 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," said Detective Inspector Tracey Miller, of London's Metropolitan Police, 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.'

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If she'd gotten a degree in English, she might have got away with it.

Reminds me of an old joke:

A cat chases a mouse into a hole. After a while, the mouse hears a dog barking and figures the dog chased off the cat, so it's safe to come out. The cat is waiting for the mouse and eats it.

Which goes to show that learning a foreign language is useful. :)

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