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| Jury rejects Breaking Bad poison murder plot | |
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| A woman has been acquitted of trying to poison her mother in a Breaking Bad-inspired plot. | A woman has been acquitted of trying to poison her mother in a Breaking Bad-inspired plot. |
| Kuntal Patel, 37, had denied trying to murder her magistrate mother Meena Patel by putting abrin in her Diet Coke drink. | Kuntal Patel, 37, had denied trying to murder her magistrate mother Meena Patel by putting abrin in her Diet Coke drink. |
| The jury found Patel guilty of acquiring a biological agent or toxin. | |
| Southwark Crown Court heard she had been angry with her mother, who "forbade" her from marrying her boyfriend Niraj Kakad. | |
| Patel, of Plaistow in east London, said she contacted an American poisons dealer on the "dark web" and talked about needing a "tasteless" and deadly toxin to get her mother "out of the way". | |
| The court heard Mrs Patel was "hell-bent" on breaking up her daughter's relationship, and is said to have locked Patel in their home, and beaten and bullied her in a bid to get her to stop seeing Mr Kakad. | |
| Patel will be sentenced on 7 November. |