| Twenty eight year old Staffordshire housewife Kate | | | | What prompted the murder attempt was that |
| Knight has been found guilty of attempted murder | | | | unbeknown to Lee Knight his wife had taken out |
| after a botched attempt to poison her husband Lee | | | | bank loans totaling £17,000 and re-mortgaged |
| left him partially paralysed, deaf and blind. | | | | the family home by forging his signature. As a result |
| Cold-hearted Knight administered anti-freeze to her | | | | the couple were in severe financial difficulty without |
| husband's wine on their seventh wedding anniversary. | | | | him knowing, and furthermore she was unhappy in |
| He became unwell shortly after drinking the wine and | | | | her marriage. |
| spent 16 weeks in a coma and hospitalised for a total | | | | But, rather than thinking of taking out a debt |
| of six months. He is now registered deaf and blind, | | | | consolidation loan and working at making her marriage |
| has some paralysis and has permanent damage to his | | | | work, Knight decided that the murder of her husband |
| kidneys requiring dialysis three times a week. He has | | | | would solve all her problems at once. A life insurance |
| also recently had cochlear implants installed to help | | | | policy courtesy of Lee's employer would pay out |
| him communicate more easily. | | | | £250,000 leaving her to enjoy a new |
| Knight planned the attempted murder for some | | | | debt-free life. |
| months before she poisoned her husband and used | | | | However, her planning rather bizarrely included asking |
| the internet to research the best substance to use | | | | her neighbour if she knew any hit men and asking if |
| to kill him. Initially, she thought of using crushed | | | | she could smell anti-freeze in a glass of wine. |
| ecstasy or iron tablets, but it was anti-freeze, | | | | Naturally, her neighbour thought she was joking but |
| containing the lethal chemical ethylene glycol, that | | | | when Lee Knight was admitted to hospital she |
| became her preferred murder method. | | | | suspected Kate had actually been serious, and told |
| She first added the anti-freeze to his takeaway curry | | | | the police. They searched the house and found a |
| but 37-year-old husband Lee complained that it | | | | bottle of anti-freeze in the kitchen from which 160mls |
| tasted "tinny" so she then poured it into his red wine. | | | | had been used. Knight later admitted that she read |
| The unsuspecting husband couldn't detect the poison | | | | on the internet that 140mls of anti-freeze had been |
| in his drink and the next thing he remembers is | | | | enough to kill someone and when added to wine |
| waking up 16 weeks later in hospital to be told by his | | | | could not be tasted. |
| mum what had happened. | | | | |