Wicked Woman jailed for trying to kill her husband of 25 years with anti-freeze in Christmas Day drink

A woman who tried to murder her husband on Christmas Day by lacing his cherry Lambrini with anti-freeze has been jailed for 15 years.

Jacqueline Patrick, 55, served up the lethal cocktail to Douglas, 70, with his supper after a row at the family home in Gipsy Hill, south London.

Their daughter Katherine, 21, had encouraged her mother to spike the drink, Inner London Crown Court heard. She was jailed for three years.

Katherine admitted inciting another to administer a noxious substance, while her mother pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder.

The court heard Patrick poured her husband about two-and-a-half glasses of the spiked drink on Christmas Day 2013.

When he became ill the next morning she phoned the ambulance service and told them the alcohol had caused his previous kidney failure to "flare up again".

When ambulance staff arrived his wife of more than 25 years handed them a fake "do not resuscitate" note, the jury was told.

During his hospital stay a blood test confirmed Mr Patrick had suffered from anti-freeze poisoning.
His wife told them she thought he may have drunk a blue liquid by mistake, prompting the medics to act on their suspicions and contact the police.

Mr Patrick spent several days in an induced coma before having to learn to walk and talk again during a year of rehabilitation, having already survived an earlier attempt by his wife to kill him the previous October.

BBC News