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Woman 'left husband blind and deaf after she tried to poison him with anti-freeze to clear her debts'

A wife tried to kill her husband by poisoning him with anti-freeze in an attempt to clear her debts, a court heard yesterday.

After he had been taken to hospital with severe vomiting, 28-year-old Kate Knight confided in a neighbour: "It's worked - nothing has shown up on the biopsy."

Factory worker Lee Knight, 37, is now deaf, blind, brain-damaged, cannot speak and needs kidney dialysis.

William Davis QC, prosecuting, said Knight considered poisoning her husband, who worked for JCB in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, with Ecstasy or giving him an iron overdose.

But she chose anti-freeze after discovering on the internet how lethal it can be in small doses.

Mr Davis told the jury at Stafford Crown Court that Knight had run up "considerable debt".
He said Knight had told neighbour Sarah Johnson that JCB would pay out on his death.

The Knights lived in Meir Hay, Stoke-on-Trent, with their son, now aged seven.

The court heard that sometime in early in 2005 Knight asked Mrs Johnson where she could obtain a lot of Ecstasy pills.

Mr Davis said: "She was present when Mrs Knight made a telephone call to someone who was prepared to supply a number of tablets.

"Within a day or so of that conversation, Knight texted her friend to the effect that Lee had got a rash on his face and was not feeling well."
Mr Davis said Mrs Johnson felt uncomfortable and replied that she wanted nothing to do with it.

But she later accompanied Knight to a chemist's after bumping into her in the street.

Knight quizzed the pharmacist about the effects of iron preparations.

When Mrs Johnson asked why, Knight replied: "I thought you didn't want to know."

Mr Davis said: "She made clear she still had in mind to get rid of her husband and made specific reference that JCB would pay out a substantial sum to any dependent in the event of his death."

The following month, Mr Davis said, Knight again confided in Mrs Johnson, showing her a screw-top bottle of wine and a container of anti-freeze.

She told Mrs Johnson she had researched online and discovered that a small dose would cause kidney failure and a heart attack.

On April 6, 2005 Mr Knight began vomiting violently and was admitted to hospital where he was diagnosed with renal failure.

He developed neurological problems, causing loss of sight and hearingand suffered massive internal bleeding.
The court heard that it was only by expert intervention that he survived.

Mr Davis added: "In the course of all that, Knight spoke to Sarah Johnson and said to her, 'It's worked, nothing has shown up on the biopsy'."

When Knight, now of Moreton, Wirral, was arrested the following month, police discovered a litre bottle of Tesco anti-freeze containing 840ml of the fluid.

An examination of her computer showed she had used the internet to carry out research into the side effects of Ecstasy and anti-freeze poisoning.

In one Google search, Knight asked: "Ecstasy - how fatal can eight pills be?"

The trial continues.

If she did this, she is one evil fucking bitch.
Let's see what kind of 'punishment' she gets....