{"id":513619,"date":"2026-07-07T23:35:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/conviction-confirmed-for-woman-who-poisoned-chocolate-to-kill-her-ex-husband\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:35:59","slug":"conviction-confirmed-for-woman-who-poisoned-chocolate-to-kill-her-ex-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/conviction-confirmed-for-woman-who-poisoned-chocolate-to-kill-her-ex-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Conviction confirmed for woman who poisoned chocolate to kill her ex-husband"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Supreme Court has confirmed the sentence of 12 years and six months in prison<\/strong> imposed on a woman from Le\u00f3n for attempting to murder her ex-partner by using one of the children they had in common to deliver a chocolate bar laced with thallium<\/strong>, a highly toxic metal that can be fatal. The Criminal Chamber considers it proven that she was the one who prepared the poisoning and rejects all the arguments with which she tried to overturn the conviction, understanding that the body of evidence clearly points to her authorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Although there was never direct proof of the moment the chocolate was tampered with and the piece the victim ate could not be analyzed, the high court concludes that the investigation gathered a chain of evidence solid enough to rule out any reasonable alternative explanation. The resolution thus fully confirms the decisions previously adopted by the Provincial Court of Le\u00f3n and the High Court of Justice of Castilla y Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case dates back to the summer of 2020. The couple was already separated<\/strong> and the relationship between them had deeply deteriorated, especially following the conflict over the custody of their two children. The exchanges of the minors had become a constant source of arguments and confrontations. In that context, according to the facts that the courts consider proven, the woman decided to end the life of her ex-partner. To do so, she chose an especially delicate moment: one of the days when the father was going to pick up the children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>The accused prepared a Milka chocolate bar with a lethal dose of thallium<\/strong> and gave it to one of her children. She told him that he should not taste it under any circumstances and that he had to give it to his father and insist until he ate it. The minor did exactly what his mother had asked him to do and, finally, the man ended up accepting the chocolate while they were returning home together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a simple stomach ache to a seven-month hospital stay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first discomforts appeared a few hours later. It started with abdominal pain and tingling in the hands<\/strong>, symptoms that initially did not suggest a particularly serious condition. However, his state worsened day by day. First, he went to a private clinic and, given the rapid progression of the condition, he was transferred to the University Hospital of Le\u00f3n. There, doctors discovered the origin of the problem: he was suffering from acute thallium poisoning<\/strong> with extraordinarily high levels of this metal in his blood and urine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>From that moment on, a long struggle to save his life began. He remained hospitalized for more than half a year<\/strong> and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit three times. He eventually required assisted breathing, suffered severe neurological damage, skin lesions, progressive vision loss, and significant physical deterioration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The specialists managed to stop the poisoning thanks to the specific treatment for this type of poisoning, but the aftereffects were irreversible<\/strong>. He lost practically all of his vision, was left with significant limitations in walking, suffered cognitive impairment, and ended up being recognized with a permanent total disability. The doctors described his progress as a case of \u201cextraordinary severity\u201d and noted that he survived thanks to the intensive treatment received and his good prior physical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The convicted woman alleged that it was all just suspicion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before the Supreme Court, the defense maintained that the conviction had been built on mere hypotheses. It argued that no thallium ever appeared in the chocolate bar seized<\/strong> during the investigation, that there was no direct evidence that the chocolate had been tampered with, and that it could not be proven that the poisoning had occurred in exactly that way. Furthermore, it questioned the son’s statement<\/strong>, given several months after the events, and argued that there could have been other possible sources of poisoning that were never investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Criminal Chamber rejects that interpretation and recalls that a criminal conviction does not necessarily require direct evidence when there is a succession of solid indications that, analyzed as a whole, lead to a single logical conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Precisely that is what is appreciated in this case. The magistrates consider the serious conflict that both maintained after the separation, the son’s account of how he received the chocolate bar to deliver it exclusively to his father, the temporal coincidence between the ingestion and the onset of the clinical symptoms, the medical reports that ruled out other reasonable forms of poisoning, and various subsequent behaviors of the accused to be especially relevant. None of these elements, the Supreme Court explains, would be sufficient on its own, but all of them form a consistent chain of evidence<\/strong> when assessed together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The resolution also clarifies why it is not decisive that the piece of chocolate consumed by the victim could never be analyzed. That fragment disappeared upon being ingested, and the rest of the bar was located some time later, when it was no longer possible to draw useful conclusions. What is truly determining, the Chamber points out, is that medical analyses indisputably confirmed the presence of thallium in the organism and that specialists ruled out other plausible sources of exposure to the toxin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The son’s testimony, one of the key pieces<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of the most debated aspects throughout the proceedings was the testimony of the couple’s son. The defense insisted that he had been examined ten months after the events<\/strong> and that during that time he could have been subject to external influences<\/strong>. However, the Supreme Court shares the assessment made by the lower courts and considers that the evidence was obtained with all guarantees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Furthermore, it highlights the consistency and level of detail in the minor’s account, who always maintained the same version: it was his mother who took the tablet, broke it, wrapped it, and asked him to deliver it only to his father, also insisting that neither he nor his brother could eat that piece<\/strong>. For the magistrates, that statement fits perfectly with the rest of the evidence and reinforces the conclusion reached during the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this decision, the Supreme Court definitively upholds the conviction imposed on the woman for the crime of attempted murder<\/strong>. In addition to the prison sentence, she must compensate the victim with more than 822,000 euros<\/strong>, an amount to which will be added uncovered medical expenses and the cost of necessary home adaptations as a result of the very serious aftereffects left by the poisoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court has confirmed the sentence of 12 years and six months in prison imposed on a woman from Le\u00f3n for attempting to murder her ex-partner by using one of the children they had in common to deliver a chocolate bar laced with thallium, a highly toxic metal that can be fatal. The Criminal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":513957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29Cb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/BUVXHCTHCFFRJIJCJP347Q74B4.avif","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/BUVXHCTHCFFRJIJCJP347Q74B4.avif"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}