My wife tried to poison me with crushed paracetamol Woman admits to putting drug into her husband’s protein powder
A FATHER has told a court that his wife ‘tried to finish me off’ by poisoning his protein powder.
During a successful barring order application against the woman, the man said his wife ‘tried to kill me’ when mixing crushed paracetamol tablets with his whey powder in August of this year.
The gym enthusiast said the only thing that saved him when tasting the contaminated whey powder was the horrible taste. He told the family law court in Ennis, Co. Clare, it was ‘so vile after taking the first slug out of the bottle, I didn’t drink any more’.
In the witness box, the man said: ‘If I had drank it all and I was on the motorway, I could have got dizzy, conked out – whatever. I’m afraid of my life that I wouldn’t be here for my kids.’
The man said that he and his wife enjoyed a ‘normal marriage’ full of the usual ups and downs.
But he claimed over the last two years ‘something changed in my wife and she seemed to be on a track on trying to damage and harm me in any way she could’.
He said that his wife has accused him of having an affair with his own sister and a work colleague. He said his wife had said ‘she hates me, she wants me dead and she is going to get rid of me’ and he sad ‘her behaviour had become more violent and vicious’.
Addressing Judge Patrick Durcan and breaking down sobbing, the man said: ‘I am a good dad and I love my kids. I want to be here as long as I can and the fact that someone that I loved since the day I met her would decide to me. My kids could have ended up without me.’
He added: ‘That is why I have asked for the barring order judge because I am afraid that something else will happen. I am in fear of my life and my children’s lives.’
In the case, Judge Durcan granted the man and the couple’s children a barring order for 12 months against the woman.
She wept as Judge Durcan made his order and he said that the woman ‘did terrible things’ to her husband. He said her actions ‘could have had fatal and very dangerous consequences for the man and for his son if his son had availed of the substance’.
Judge Durcan said that the return of the woman to the family home ‘at this point in time would have a serious effect on the welfare of this family’. Asked about mixing the crushed paracetamol tablets with the whey powder, the wife said in the witness box: ‘I did a stupid thing and I will regret it for the rest of my life.’
She said: ‘I wasn’t trying to kill him like he said. If I wanted to kill him I would have put a load in.’
She added: ‘I did it to make him sick because he made me sick. He was at me and at me and at me and I just wanted it to stop.’ She said that she crushed six to eight paracetamol tablets and mixed that with the whey powder. Her solicitor, Frank Doherty, told the court that she put ‘in a very minimal amount’ of paracetamol..
The woman was admitted into psychiatric care the same day last month that she admitted her plot when her husband became suspipoison cious over the whey powder. The court heard that she has since tried to kill herself. Solicitor for the husband, Ann Gillane, read out a text message that the man’s wife sent to him three days after she was admitted to psychiatric care last month. The text read: ‘I am so sorry for everything.’
The husband said that he made a statement to gardaí the same day his wife admitted to contaminating the whey powder and that an investigation is ongoing.
Mr Doherty said that the husband had put terrible pressure on his wife to sign a bond connected to their children’s finances.
The husband denied that changing the locks on the house while his wife was in psychiatric care was connected to keeping his wife locked out of the home after she was discharged. The woman is currently staying with a relative.
‘I wasn’t trying to kill him’