A married Home Office boss who laced his pregnant lover’s drink with abortion drugs was jailed for three years and nine months.
Darren Burke, 43, tried to serve Laura Slade, his mistress of five years, a spiked glass of orange juice after she told him she was pregnant and planned to keep the baby in December 2020.
Ms Slade, who became suspicious and refused to drink it, called police and traces of mifepristone, a prescribed medication that brings about abortions in the early stages of pregnancy, was found.
