A senior civil servant has been jailed for more than three and a half years for spiking his pregnant mistress’s orange juice in a bid to cause a miscarriage.
Married father-of-one Darren Burke, 43, former deputy director for the emergency services mobile communications programme at the Home Office, was sentenced to a total of 45 months in prison for crushing up an abortion pill and putting it in Laura Slade’s glass at her flat.
