Brisbane judge says Judith Ann Venn had suffered physical and emotional abuse and her crime arose out of a ‘tragic chain of events’
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Judith Ann Venn laced her husband’s vegetable soup with a fatal dose of 50 prescription pills in the belief it was the “only solution to an intolerable and hopeless situation”.
The 69-year-old, who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her husband Lance Hilton Venn, was sentenced to jail on Friday but is immediately eligible for parole after nearly three years behind bars.
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