Farmer's wife subject to 'vicious rumours and innuendo' since mysterious poisoning death

Douglas Thrift died in December, 2018, an autopsy later revealing he had a fatal concentration of the highly-toxic strychnine in his system. An inquest this week examined the source of strychnine and how it was ingested.

THE wife of an Upper Hunter farmer who died from a mysterious poisoning in 2018 was "devastated and blindsided" by his death and has been unable to properly grieve because she had been treated as a person of interest.

Jane Thrift has had her phone intercepted, her finances scrutinised and audited and her movements triangulated.