A 19-year-old woman has been sentenced to at least 16 years in prison over the fatal poisoning of an Irish dance teacher with a date rape drug known as “devil’s breath”. In the summer of 2019, Osei killed 43-year-old Adrian Murphy with an overdose of scopolamine – a substance known as devil’s breath which comes from the deadly nightshade family. Same drugThey were also convicted of poisoning a second man with the same drug two days earlier. ‘Despicable actions’Mr Murphy had worked as a dance teacher and a choreographer at the Royal Academy of Dance, but was on a year-long sabbatical at the time of his death. In a statement, his sister Majella Murphy told Cristea that she had been “torn in half as a direct result of your selfish and despicable actions”.

Source: The Irish Times March 29, 2021 18:39 UTC