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Baby poison doc is jailed
A HOSPITAL consultant has been jailed for six years after attempting to poison a colleague to make her miscarry their baby.
Highly respected chest specialist Edward Erin, 44, tried to poison Bella Prowse, 33, a secretary at St Mary’s, the Old Bailey heard. Erin, a father of two from Kensington, laced her coffee with powerful drugs when they met at a Starbucks near the Paddington hospital. But Ms Prowse became suspicious and only pretended to drink. When Erin had gone she kept the evidence and handed it to police. Convicted of administering poison in coffee and orange juice, which she had sipped, married Erin had “destroyed” his life, the court heard. Sentencing him, Judge Richard Hone, QC, branded Erin a womaniser who often lived in a fantasy world and who had betrayed his profession. “You are clever, but also devious and dishonest. You have been exposed as a liar, cheat and predator,” Judge Hone said.
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