Crimes NEWS

Stripper jailed for trying to poison lover’s Angel Delight

Published by onlines on November 13, 2009

A STRIPPER who tried to poison her lover by lacing his Angel Delight with anti-freeze got her just desserts today when she was jailed for 33 months.

Sophie Mardon, 26, poured half a bottle of the toxic liquid into the pudding and served it to Martyn Kay, 31, his brother Neal, 26, and their father Neil, 55.

The three men tasted it but found it so disgusting they refused to eat any more.

Mardon later wrote them notes apologising for trying to poison them and ending: “Lots of love, despite attempted murder”.

She was arrested but then stabbed Martyn in the leg while on bail.

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Bristol Crown Court heard how Mardon, a clerical assistant, carried out the attacks because she was in an abusive relationship with Martyn who forced her to work as a stripper at night for extra cash.

She would return to her lover’s father’s cramped house in Thornbury, Bristol, which she shared with the three men and would be expected to cook and do the housework.

She finally snapped over a supper of roast chicken when she laced the purple-coloured pudding with anti-freeze.

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Later Neal and Neil found notes from her hidden in their duvets apologising for her actions.

She wrote to Neil: “I apologise the pudding I made had half a bottle of de-icer mixed in it. Glad now you didn’t eat it. Maybe next time I’ll get away with it.

“Thanks for allowing me to be a guest. I’m leaving at half three today. Good luck with the boys. Lots of love, despite attempted murder.

“Hugs and kisses, Sophie.”

She later told a hospital doctor she had tried to poison the family and was arrested.

Mardon then “flippantly” told police she would stab Martyn if she was released but was bailed pending further inquiries.

Four months later she stabbed him in the right thigh while they talked in her car.

She flagged down a police car and told them what she had done, but claimed it was in self-defence.

Mardon admitted administering poison with intent and unlawful wounding.

Judge Mark Horton said: “This tale is as classic as it is tragic.

“It is the tale of two people who are together for the wrong reasons in a relationship marked by violence and psychological pressure.

“In your case I concluded that your anger and resentment led you to a dark place in your personality because it led you to carry out a cold and premeditated act of revenge, not just on your partner Martyn but on his family.

“This poison could cause serious renal damage to anyone taking those puddings.

“Subsequently, upon your arrest, you said, perhaps flippantly, that if you were given bail you would stab your boyfriend.

“You did meet up with him. You impaled his leg, from the evidence I’ve heard, to the full extent of the blade.”

Mardon was banned from contacting Martyn Kay after she has served her sentence.

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