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Married Home Office boss who laced pregnant lover's drink with abortion drugs jailed

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

Daily Mirror · Jun 16, 2022

Senior civil servant jailed for spiking pregnant mistress with abortion drug

A Home Office civil servant was sentenced to 45 months in prison for crushing up an abortion pill and putting it in a glass of orange juice.

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2022

Darren Burke: Married Home Office boss jailed for spiking pregnant lover’s drink with abortion pill

The victim suffered PTSD and requires therapy following the offence

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2022

Civil servant looked ‘very flustered’ before ‘lacing lover’s drink with abortion drug’

Laura Slade refused to drink a glass of orange juice allegedly laced with a medication used to induce abortion, court told

The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2022

Married civil servant accused of lacing lover’s drink with abortion drug

Laura Slade says she found powdery residue at the bottom of the glass after he insisted she drink from it

The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2022

Married Home Office manager ‘covertly tried to drug lover with abortion pill to induce miscarriage’

‘If Ms Slade had kept the baby then his double life would have come crashing down around him,’ court hears

The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2022