Pensioner Who Put Mercury In Wife's Tea Avoids Jail

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Channel: Sky News · 2009 · News & Politics

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A pensioner who poisoned his estranged wife by putting mercury in her tea has been given a suspended prison sentence of 350 days. William Dowling said he hoped she would become dependent on him and that he would win her back by nursing her back to health. Sky's Tom Parmenter reports.

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