30-year sentence for wife who poisoned husband

A HOUSEWIFE who left her husband blind and deaf by poisoning him with anti-freeze was sentenced to 30 years yesterday.

Kate Knight, aged 28, of Meir Hay, Stoke-on-Trent, was convicted at Stafford Crown Court last month of the attempted murder of Lee Knight by lacing his food with ethylene glycol on their seventh wedding anniversary.

Knight was also left with brain damage and kidney failure following the poisoning in April 2005.