Husband who killed wife by poisoning her cereal caught by breast milk tests
23.01.2022 - 17:01
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A husband who once asked a colleague to kill off his wife for money has been jailed for her murder.
Jason Harris drugged and killed his wife of 11 years, Christina Ann Thompson at their home just four months after they had had their second baby together.
Harris was only convicted of the heinous crime nearly five years after his wife was found dead in the family bed after Harris called a neighbour to check on her, because she wasn’t answering her mobile.
The neighbour thought it was an unusual request.
Harris told them Christina hadn’t been feeling very well the night before, so he had taken the children to work with him in the morning and left her in bed.
The neighbour went round to their house in Davison, Michigan, US and noticed the door was unlocked.
Inside, they found Christina unresponsive in bed and cold to the touch. According to Mirror Online, another neighbour, a registered nurse, confirmed that she had no pulse.
They called 911 but when the emergency services arrived there was sadly nothing they could do. Christina was dead.
How had the mother died so suddenly in her home?
There was no sign of an attack or a break-in. Harris told police that Christina had been feeling weak, sick and hungry the night before, so he’d got her a bowl of cereal with milk.
He said she had been struggling with a cold that was aggravating her asthma. Harris said that while eating the cereal, she struggled to hold the spoon and had then dropped the bowl, fallen from her chair and passed out on the floor.
But instead of calling an ambulance, he’d helped her into bed, cleared up the mess and gone to sleep too. Harris claimed Christina had been coughing and had a restless night.
He said that in the morning, Christina was still sleeping