Boss’ drink spiked by rail cleaner as revenge
A RAILWAY station cleaner who spiked her supervisor’s coffee with detergent as revenge was yesterday jailed for 10 months.
Aurora Iacomi, 32, poured the liquid into Angelina Raychinova’s flask at Fenchurch Street station on April 22.
Inner London Crown Court heard how the pair had “a history of tension at work” and “didn’t get on”. Iacomi was also going through a disciplinary procedure with the contractors.
The Romanian graduate had been chatting with colleagues when Ms Raychinova told her off, causing her to feel “belittled and humiliated”.
Iacomi then went to a “cleaning compound” at the station, took a bottle of the fluid, and poured “a droplet” into the coffee. When the victim took a sip of her coffee, she felt her lips burning and immediately spat it
out. Judge Robert Kelleher told Iacomi: “Your actions were premeditated and your intention was clearly to cause some harm.
“You felt unfairly treated at work by Ms Raychinova and wanted revenge. That incident was the spark that lit the fuel of resentment.
“This was a case in which you deliberately set out to cause injury to a colleague because you bore a grudge against her and did not know the level of risk you exposed her too.”
Her lawyer Flavia Kenyon said the action was inexcusable. But she added: “Her intention is demonstrated in the fact that she only poured a tiny drop in to spoil the coffee and ruin her coffee break.”
Iacomi, who claimed it was a prank, admitted to administering a poisonous or noxious substance with intent to injure, aggrieve, or annoy.