Woman pleads guilty to poisoning husband with eye drops

YORK, S.C. — A South Carolina girl pleaded guilty to fatally poisoning her husband by placing learn drops into his water for days. She became once sentenced to 25 years in penal complex.

Lana Sue Clayton, 53, pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter and tampering with a food or drug, knowledge retail outlets reported.

York County detectives stated Lana Clayton admitted to giving her husband Steven Clayton drinks laced with Visine. She poisoned him with Visine for 3 days in July 2018 sooner than the poison in spite of the entirety introduced on his demise, prosecutors stated.

Lana Clayton stated her husband became once abusive and she did no longer indicate to raze him.

“I did impulsively save the Visine in Steven’s drink, nonetheless I precise did it to fabricate him unhappy…” Lana Clayton stated in courtroom. “I never notion it can well perchance presumably raze him.”

She became once at the beginning charged with execute nonetheless permitted a plea deal.

Her lawyers in courtroom stated Lana Clayton became once a upright person having labored as a Veterans Affairs nurse in Charlotte. They stated Lana Clayton became once abused as rather of one, raped on a navy irascible and suffered from put up-aggravating stress disorder. She attempted to raze herself in the route of the investigation in August 2018

Court files point to the couple lived on property price bigger than $1 million and Steven Clayton, 64, has over a $1 million in other resources. He became once a retired businessman from Florida.

Lana Clayton knew the Visine would raze her husband and persisted to poison him, prosecutors stated. They accused her of destroying his will so she could well perchance presumably also inherit his money.

“How will you retain you did this to educate him a lesson, when it is apparent from the information that you just let him endure for 3 days,” Make a resolution Paul Burch instructed Clayton in courtroom. “You no longer successfully-known him.”