Wife ‘tried to gas hubby’

A SPURNED wife spiked her husband’s beer and then allegedly tried to blow him up in his car while he slept after finding out the high-ranking prison guard was having an affair with a colleague, a court has heard

Sharon Yarnton, 50, is accused of trying to murder her husband Dean Yarnton who woke in his car at a national park with a gas cylinder bottle hissing in the back seat and diesel fuel poured around the vehicle.

Ms Yarnton, who is also a high-ranking prison guard, has pleaded not guilty to attempting to murder her husband at Picnic Point in Sydney on February 1, 2015. Two people accused of trying to help her kill her husband, Fady Houda, 24, and Monique Hayes, 25, have also pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.