Man sentenced to five months in jail for poisoning waterBy Wang Ting-chuan and Jason Pan / Staff reportersThe New Taipei City District Court has sentenced a man to five months in jail for allegedly putting rat poison in a water storage tank over a disagreement with a tenant, causing illness and skin rashes to a family. The man, surnamed Hung (洪), can pay a fine in lieu of jail time, the court said. Yang reported the incident to police, and lab testing found that the particles contained the ingredients of rat poison. Police gathered some of the discarded contents, which lab tests confirmed to contain the components of rat poison, it said. We still suffer from the fear that the water tank could be contaminated by rat poison,” she said.
