Heaven hath no rage like a love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned

Heaven hath no rage like a love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned - William Congreve

by Mike

How bad would things have to be for you to plot to murder someone? How bad would a relationship have to get for you to consider forcefully ending the life of a person for the sake of, quoting the Daily Mirror, “ cash(ing) in on…life insurance”? How bad would it have to get when the victim in question was your husband?

It sounds hard to believe but there is currently an ongoing case Stafford crown court where Kate Knight, from Stoke-On-Trent, allegedly mixed anti-freeze into a bottle of wine after
searching the internet for ways of killing her husband to solve her financial crisis.

Despite drinking this lethal cocktail, Lee Knight survived but he has been left deaf, blind and with brain and kidney damage. According to the Daily Mirror, she is alleged to have told a friend that “”It’s worked. Nothing has shown up on the biopsy,” after her husband was taken to hospital.

What would make someone even consider doing something like this? Yes we can get in financial difficulty and other problems in our relationship, but is it really a reason to go that far? I could understand someone wishing to leave a relationship if there was emotional and physical abuse involved and maybe the proceedings in court will reveal something like this.

However this sounds like out of a murder mystery novel and even then it would be an extremely graphic one. Until the case is over we will not know the full story.

I realise that some people are purely motivated by money and if they cannot get what they want they will look for any means in order to reach their goal. With a marriage, it is assumed that both people share a common goal of living together and making a financially stable life together in a union of love. In the majority of cases most know what they are getting into when they confirm their wedding vows.