Canadian woman jailed over ricin letter sent to Trump in White House

In September 2020, prosecutors said Ferrier made the ricin, a potentially deadly poison, then mailed it to Mr Trump with a letter that referred to him as “The Ugly Tyrant Clown”.

Pascale Ferrier (Hidalgo County (Texas) Sheriff’s Office, via AP)

A Canadian woman has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison in Washington over the mailing of a threatening letter containing the poison ricin to then-US president Donald Trump at the White House.

Pascale Ferrier, 56, had pleaded guilty to violating biological weapons prohibitions in letters sent to Mr Trump and to police officials in Texas, where she had been jailed in 2019 after refusing to leave a park area as it closed.