Doctor Gets Six Years in Prison for Poisoning Ex-Lover to Cause Abortion

Edward Erin, a hospital consultant, attempted to poison Bella Prowse on three separate occasions in early February 2008 and force her to have an abortion without her knowledge. He used the drugs methotrexate and diclofenac in the abortion bid and tried to administer them once at her home by putting the drugs in a tea he made for her. During sentencing, Judge Richard Hone called Erin "a liar, a cheat and a predator" and said he engaged in actions that "betrayed his profession and his family. You intended an invasion of her body, the thinking man's equivalent of an act of violence. The fact that no harm has yet resulted to the child is no thanks to you." The judge jailed Erin for six years on each count, with the sentences to run concurrently. Prowse reportedly gave birth to a healthy baby last October despite the attempts. LifeNews