Kitchen porter cleared of school soup poisoning

A KITCHEN porter at a top public school has been acquitted of attempting to poison the pupils’ soup.

Maxwell Cook was accused of pouring a bleach-like cleaning product into the carrot and coriander soup at Stowe School.

But after two-and-half hours’ deliberations, a jury of 11 women and one man found him not guilty of attempting to administer poison with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy.