Queensland woman who laced husband’s soup with pills pleads guilty to manslaughter

Court hears Judith Ann Venn was caring for her husband and was at the end of the road' when she killed him

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Judith Ann Venn had reached the end of the road" when she gave her husband of more than 40 years an overdose by lacing his favourite soup with pills and killed him, a court has been told.

The now 69-year-old was caring for Lance Hilton Venn, whose bipolar disorder had worsened significantly over the previous 18 months.

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