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A senior civil servant has been jailed for more than three and a half years for spiking his pregnant mistress's orange juice in a bid to cause a miscarriage.
Married father-of-one Darren Burke, 43, a former deputy director at the Home Office, was sentenced to a total of 45 months in prison for crushing up an abortion pill and putting it in Laura Slade's glass at her flat.
She refused to drink the glass of orange juice, which was laced with mifepristone, a medication used to induce an abortion, on December 4 2020.
Sadly, she suffered an unconnected miscarriage weeks later on Christmas Day.
Sentencing Burke today at Isleworth Crown Court, Judge Alistair Hammerton said: 'The breach of the trust that Ms Slade placed in you has aversely affected Miss Slade's ability to trust others.'
Darren Burke, 43, former deputy director at the Home Office, was sentenced to a total of 45 months in prison for crushing up an abortion pill and putting it in Laura Slade's glass at her flat.
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