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| Wife 'intended' curry plot death | Wife 'intended' curry plot death |
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| A judge has ruled that a woman secretly taped by police discussing poisoning her husband did intended to kill him. | |
| A charge of soliciting to murder was dropped against Susan Shervill, 46, of Swansea, but she pleaded guilty of threatening to kill her husband David. | A charge of soliciting to murder was dropped against Susan Shervill, 46, of Swansea, but she pleaded guilty of threatening to kill her husband David. |
| Swansea Crown Court Judge John Diehl said a tape of her talking about putting ecstasy in his curry showed she planned to carry out the plot. | Swansea Crown Court Judge John Diehl said a tape of her talking about putting ecstasy in his curry showed she planned to carry out the plot. |
| The Llanelli supermarket manageress will be sentenced at a later date. | The Llanelli supermarket manageress will be sentenced at a later date. |
| During the trial the court heard recordings made by police of Shervill talking with former colleague Tyler Davies. | During the trial the court heard recordings made by police of Shervill talking with former colleague Tyler Davies. |
| Dismissed suggestions | Dismissed suggestions |
| He had briefly worked with her while she was a manager at the Lidl store in Llanelli, and approached police after she had raised the idea of poisoning her husband on several occasions. | |
| Officers persuaded him to wear a recording device and it captured Shervill asking him to provide her with tablets, which she would grind into a curry for her disabled husband. | |
| Shervill has always insisted that she planned to kill herself and not her husband. | |
| She feared that if she told Mr Davies the truth he would not give her the tablets. | She feared that if she told Mr Davies the truth he would not give her the tablets. |
| She was arrested in March this year at the store in the Morfa area of the town and admitted to the conversation that had been recorded before she was aware it had been taped. | She was arrested in March this year at the store in the Morfa area of the town and admitted to the conversation that had been recorded before she was aware it had been taped. |
| Giving evidence, her husband told the jury he loved his wife and dismissed suggestions that she would try to kill him. | Giving evidence, her husband told the jury he loved his wife and dismissed suggestions that she would try to kill him. |
| But Judge Diehl said he was convinced she had planned to murder Mr Shervill. | But Judge Diehl said he was convinced she had planned to murder Mr Shervill. |