Killer who poisoned Irish dance teacher with date-rape drug jailed for life

Joel Osei has been jailed for life (Met Police/PA)

A man who poisoned a gifted dancer with a date-rape drug known as “devil’s breath” in order to rob him after entrapping him using a fake dating app profile has been handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 32 years.

Joel Osei, 26, killed 43-year-old Irishman Adrian Murphy in summer 2019 with an overdose of scopolamine – a substance from the deadly nightshade family of poisons commonly used in rapes and kidnappings in South America.