Wife slashed husband's throat after feeding him horny goat weed

A woman lured her husband into woodland after giving him a natural aphrodisiac before slitting his throat and leaving him for dead, then going to pick up another man she had met on the internet, a court heard yesterday.

Joanne Hale, 39, gave husband Peter, 43, an aphrodisiac called "horny goat weed", blindfolded him and led him into woods. The pair kissed, cuddled and "rolled about on the leaves" as part of an apparently "playful game", Bristol crown court heard.

But Hale then straddled her husband as he lay face down and slit his throat with a knife, leaving a 12cm (4.5in) long wound, before plunging it into his neck and chest several times, it was claimed.



Mrs Hale then abandoned him when she was disturbed by a passerby and drove to a nearby railway station to meet a man she met on the internet for the first time.

Police arrested her when she returned to the marital home in Stapleton, Bristol, and she was charged with attempted murder and wounding with intent to cause GBH.

Joanne Hale denies attempted murder and wounding with intent to cause GBH. The trial continues.