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Indonesian maid given six-year jail term for attempted murder
Nov 3, 2009, 6:24 GMT
Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian court has sentenced an Indonesian woman to six years' jail for attempted murder after she laced her employer's coffee with poison, a news report said Tuesday.
Nurhayati Ahmad, 22, from Lombok island, pleaded guilty to poisoning the coffee and vegetable soup of her 77-year-old employer with herbicide last year.
The employer was having lunch with her daughter when she suspected something amiss as her coffee and soup had a bitter taste and an overpowering smell, the New Straits Times daily said.
Mother and daughter then lodged a police report, and police discovered two bottles of herbicide stashed in the kitchen, it said.
Nurhayati begged the court for leniency, claiming that she was the sole breadwinner for a family of eight back in Indonesia.
The judge ordered her to serve out her sentence from the date of her arrest in July last year.
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