'You're no criminal': Judge frees jealous wife who laced her cheating husband's cake with rat poison

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2008-05-28 16:40

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"A former hospital chef who laced her cheating husband's cake with rat poison in a bid to "stop him leaving the house to see his mistress" was spared jail today.
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She pleaded guilty to trying to poison Mr Godwin, 63, a retired builder, but the court heard she had only used a teaspoon of rat poison in his fruitcake.

She would have needed to up the dose to more than 3lbs to have killed him, Gloucester Crown Court was told.

Family members gasped and cheered when Judge Jamie Tabor said Godwin would not have to serve an immediate prison sentence.

The 56-year-old was instead handed a 12-month prison sentence suspended for 24 months.

Judge Tabor said Mr Godwin, who sat in court apart from the couple's children, had asked his former partner to go back to him.

But the judge ordered her not to see her husband for 12 months as a condition of her sentence."

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It's nice to know that my wife could cheat on me and trash my car and I'd go to jail longer for saying I'd kill her then she would for actually trying to kill me.

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Submitted by blaze4metal on Wed, 2008-05-28 22:47

If she admitted that she was poisoning him in order to keep him from leaving the house, that is legally defined as "unlawful restraint" - a felony!

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Submitted by Roy on Wed, 2008-05-28 23:10

felony (legal definition): a crime committed by MEN only.

must be what they are teaching in fem law school these days.

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Submitted by daveinga on Thu, 2008-05-29 03:59

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Submitted by Thundercloud. on Thu, 2008-05-29 15:21