A couple are sentenced to a combined 17 years in prison after killing two men during a robbery that involved poisoning drinks. The case is heard at Oxford Crown Court, where the prosecution says the victims are drugged and later die.
Evening Standard reports that four people are drugged when glasses of wine are spiked with GBL, a chemical that can act as a sedative or poison when consumed. The reporting indicates the deaths are linked to the spiking of the drinks during the robbery, and the court treats the incident as deliberate rather than accidental. Other details, such as the specific sentencing breakdown between the two defendants and the full number of affected victims, are not provided in the available excerpt.
Across the sources provided here, the shared core is that the defendants are convicted and jailed for their roles in fatal poisonings connected to a robbery, with drink-spiking described as a central mechanism. The Belfast Telegraph excerpt does not include further details beyond the matching case title.
