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Wife tries to kill husband then changes her mind

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-05-18 08:50

A woman who tried to poison her husband but then rushed him to the hospital to save his life was recently sentenced to three years in prison .

Huang, 40, of Nanjing, Jiangsu province, had an affair and then asked to divorce her husband. He refused and she spiked his tea with pesticide.

After the man started to twitch, in reaction to the pesticide, she changed her mind and took him to the hospital. He is fine but she disappeared. The man's parents called police and she was arrested four hours later.

(Yangtse Evening News)