Woman ‘tried to kill mother in Breaking Bad copycat plot’ Kuntal Patel, 37, bought a dose of deadly abrin poison over the internet from a US-based vendor she dubbed “Heisenberg” after the chemistry teacher-turned-drug baron of the US drama series, a jury heard yesterday. In one of a series of encrypted emails uncovered by police, Miss Patel described how she watched her magistrate mother, Meena, drink poisoned Diet Coke. The plot only failed because of miscalculations over the required dose needed to kill, London’s Southwark Crown Court was told. Jurors heard she was inspired by a plot in season five of Breaking Bad in which a character is killed using the deadly poison ricin. She made contact with a seller – known only to her as Snowman – after spotting an advert on the anonymous criminal marketplace Black Market Reloaded, which promised that anyone taking abrin would “die a very horrible death”, the court heard. Miss Patel told Snowman she had been driven to desperation by her 60-year-old mother, who had refused to let her marry her US-based boyfriend she met on an Asian dating website, the court heard. “Meena’s attitude was ‘over my dead body’,” said Jonathan Polnay, a lawyer for the prosecution. “She was a manipulative and controlling [...] sheffieldinnews/woman-tried-to-kill-mother-in-breaking-bad-copycat-plot/
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:01:35 +0000
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