Rebecca Payne, 'cookie monster', is jailed for 16 years trends now
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A woman who murdered her husband by drugging homemade biscuits after suffering more than a decade of 'insidious abuse' at his hands will spend at least 10 years in prison.
Rebecca Payne, 43 - who was dubbed the 'Cookie monster' - was found guilty of Noel Payne's murder by a Supreme Court jury in regional Victoria earlier this year.
But the presiding judge said her 'claim for mercy is compelling' due to the abuse she suffered over many years.
In September 2020, Payne gave her husband a fatal dose of Temazepam by lacing the icing of biscuits, serving them to him with a cup of Milo.
She then wrapped him in a blanket and stored his body in a chest freezer in the backyard of their Walpeup family
