Indonesian maid given six-year jail term for attempted murder

Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian court has sentenced an Indonesian woman to six years' jail for attempted murder after she laced her employer's coffee with poison, a news report said Tuesday. Nurhayati Ahmad, 22, from Lombok island, pleaded guilty to poisoning the coffee and vegetable soup of her 77-year-old employer with herbicide last year.

The employer was having lunch with her daughter when she suspected something amiss as her coffee and soup had a bitter taste and an overpowering smell, the New Straits Times daily said.

Mother and daughter then lodged a police report, and police discovered two bottles of herbicide stashed in the kitchen, it said.

Nurhayati begged the court for leniency, claiming that she was the sole breadwinner for a family of eight back in Indonesia.

The judge ordered her to serve out her sentence from the date of her arrest in July last year.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292968,indonesian-maid-given-six-year-jail-term-for-attempted-murder.html.