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                  Woman Jailed for 'Curry Murder' 
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            LONDON (Reuters) - A British woman described by police as "every 
            man's nightmare" was jailed for life Monday for murdering her second 
            husband on his birthday -- probably by poisoning his curry. 
                   
            Police reopened their inquiry into the 1994 death of Julian Webb 
            after his wife Dena Thompson went on trial in 2000 for trying to 
            murder her third husband during a bondage sex session. 
            Thompson, dubbed "The Black Widow," was acquitted of the attempted 
            murder of her third husband, but police exhumed the body of Webb. He 
            had died from an overdose of aspirin and the anti-depressant 
            dothiepin. 
            "Dothiepin is a drug with a bitter taste and it would be hard to 
            administer it to someone unless it was disguised in some way," said 
            Michael Birnbaum, prosecuting. "And one way of disguising it would 
            be in a hot curry." 
            After Webb's death, Thompson phoned a friend in America and said he 
            had become ill after eating a very hot curry on his 31st birthday, 
            the Old Bailey court heard. 
            Detectives estimated that Thompson, 43, had conned men she met 
            through lonely hearts adverts out of 500,000 pounds ($871,700). 
            "Quite frankly this woman is every man's nightmare," Detective Chief 
            Inspector Martyn Underhill said outside the court. "Men can sleep 
            safe tonight knowing she has been taken off the streets." 
            During her trial in 2000 for the attempted murder of her third 
            husband Richard Thompson, he told how she had hit him over the head 
            with a baseball bat and stabbed him with a carving knife while he 
            lay naked, bound and gagged. 


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