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CYANIDE ‘BLACK WIDOW’ TO HANG FOR 3 LOVER MURDERS

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A WOMAN aged 70 has been sentenced to hang for the deaths of her husband and two other former partners, and the attempted murder of a fourth.

Chisako Kakehi had been found guilty of the deaths, which occurred between 2007 and 2013.

It said she poisoned the victims with cyanide after becoming the beneficiar­y of their wills.

She reportedly married at least three times and had three other partners who died, all within a few years of starting relationsh­ips with her, and amassed about £6.6million in inheritanc­es over 10 years.

The so-called “Black Widow” case surfaced when she was arrested in 2014 over the death of her 75-year-old husband, who’d died in December 2013, a month after they married.

Kakehi was later charged with murdering two other men, her former boyfriends aged 71 and 75, and trying to kill a fourth, aged 79.

The Kyoto, Japan, courtroom was packed to hear the ruling.

The court said traces of cyanide, which she POP babe Nicki Minaj looked in a daring black sensationa­l wore to leather dress the CFDA Vogue which she Awards in New Fashion Fund The York on Monday 34-year-old hitmaker night. in the sexy studs, turned heads which showed silk and leather outfit, and off her sweater- featured an unusual stretchers fastened at the minidress which modesty bottom to keep intact. her KILLER: Kakehi confessed she obtained while running a printing plant, were found in all of the victims.

Investigat­ors discovered a small packet of cyanide buried in a flower pot that Kakehi allegedly tried to throw away. The court said she had the men take cyanide capsules, saying they were health supplement­s.

The court dismissed her lawyers’ argument that she had dementia and the judge said that Kakehi was fully responsibl­e for her actions.

The court ruled that she was the only person with the victims at the time of their deaths and immediatel­y applied for her inheritanc­e each time.

The defence appealed against the verdict to a high court.

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