02:47 EDT, 1 February 2021
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A woman jailed for poisoning her partner with a toxic cocktail of drugs, including morphine, valium and tramadol, has had her murder conviction overturned.
Wendie-Sue Dent, 62, denied killing her de facto husband David Lawrence in December 2015 to claim his $300,000 estate.
But she was found guilty by a South Australian Supreme Court jury in April last year of murdering Mr Lawrence inside his Morphett Vale home, south of Adelaide.
The prosecution had alleged Dent, who lived at Dapto in NSW s Illawarra region before her arrest, administered Mr Lawrence a mixture of dangerous medications that had all been prescribed to her.
Wendie-Sue Dent s murder conviction quashed on appeal
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Accused woman Wendie-Sue Dent will face a Supreme Court retrial after her murder conviction was quashed on appeal.
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Alleged killer Wendie-Sue Dent will face a second Supreme Court trial over allegations she poisoned her partner with prescription medication in 2015 after South Australia s Court of Criminal Appeal quashed her murder conviction.
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Wendie-Sue Dent was found guilty in 2020 of murdering her partner by poisoning him with prescription medication
That finding was quashed by the criminal appeal court, which said jurors were not directed about Ms Dent s lies correctly