Woman poisons husband's cake, avoids jail

Published: May 28, 2008 at 6:50 PM

CHELTENHAM, England, May 28 (UPI) -- A British grandmother avoided prison Wednesday when a judge decided she wasn't "seeing things straight" when she baked rat poison into a cake for her husband.

Gloucester Crown Court Judge Jamie Tabor ruled former chef Yvonne Godwin, 56, was not a "criminal in any shape or form" because she turned herself in for putting a teaspoon of rat poison in her husband's food to "stop him leaving the house to see his mistress," the Daily Mail reported.

Godwin, of Cheltenham, England, claimed she was recovering from cancer and driven to the edge when she found out in March her abusive husband of 30 years, Robert Godwin, 63, was cheating on her with the sister of her close friend.

Godwin's husband has said he thinks his wife is innocent and should not be jailed.

"I don't think she put poison in anything. There's nothing wrong with me. She is a wonderful woman and a loving, caring person," he said.

Godwin was given a one-year jail sentence suspended for two years.

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