Mercury poisoning case dropped
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- Published: Thursday, 08 May 2014 07:27
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A dental nurse accused of poisoning her boss with mercury has walked free from court. Ravinder Kaur's case was dropped by the CPS when two separate juries failed to reach verdicts. She was said to have laced practice manager Laura Knowles’ coffee with the toxic metal after being handed her final written warning three days previously.
Ms Knowles had to be rushed to hospital with stomach cramps, nausea, and dizziness after drinking the noxious drink which was ‘slimy like an oyster’. She initially thought her colleague had spat in the coffee, she said in court. But when her stomach was x-rayed, doctors found small pieces of Mercury inside. She suffered no permanent effects however.
Kaur had been disciplined twice by Ms Knowles. Three days before the incident, Ms Knowles had told her off for leaving a patient unattended in the dental chair to go on her lunch break. But the CPS dropped the case after two separate trials in which juries failed to return a verdict on a charge of administering a noxious substance.
The case, at Blackfriars Crown Court, was a retrial after a jury also failed to reach a verdict in May last year. Robin Miric, for the CPS, said: ‘The long and short of it is that the Crown have decided they don’t wish to proceed further in this matter.’
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