A senior civil servant has been remanded in custody after he was found guilty of spiking his pregnant mistress's orange juice with abortion drugs in a bid to cause a miscarriage.
The court heard of how married father-of-one Darren Burke , 43, a former deputy director for the emergency services mbile communications programme at the Home Office, crushed up an abortion pill and put it in Laura Slade's glass at her flat.
He earlier encouraged the mother-of-two to terminate the pregnancy and sent her links to an abortion clinic after she fell pregnant during the course of their five-year affair.
