{"id":18738,"date":"2026-10-16T12:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=18738"},"modified":"2026-10-16T12:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:28:19","slug":"australian-woman-charged-after-allegedly-poisoning-colleagues-curry-with-snail-pellets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=18738","title":{"rendered":"Australian woman charged after allegedly poisoning colleague’s curry with snail pellets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Perth woman has been charged after allegedly putting poisonous snail pellets in a colleague’s curry in an apparent attempt to poison her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Police said the incident happened in February at a workplace in Oldbury, a semi-rural area south-east of Perth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They said the alleged victim, a 58-year-old woman, brought a container of curry to work to share with colleagues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During a morning tea break, the curry was shared among employees and eaten without issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But at lunchtime, the woman went back to eat more of the curry and noticed bright green granules in the food.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After tasting it, she reported experiencing numbness to her tongue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The food was kept and was given to police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Police allege between morning tea and lunch, a 43-year old woman accessed a chemical storage shed, then went back to the staff room where the food was kept and allegedly added snail pellets to the curry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They have charged her with one count of endangering the life, health or safety of a person.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Police say the two women were also in a “personal relationship” together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An investigation by detectives allegedly identified the substance as snail pellets containing metaldehyde, a poisonous substance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She is due to appear in Armadale Magistrates Court on 5 November.<\/p>\n

Source: RNZ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Perth woman has been charged after allegedly putting poisonous snail pellets in a colleague’s curry in an apparent attempt to poison her. Police said the incident happened in February at a workplace in Oldbury, a semi-rural area south-east of Perth. They said the alleged victim, a 58-year-old woman, brought a container of curry to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18740,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738\/revisions\/18740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}