Lover tried to poison diabetic fiancé using ‘remote controlled insulin pump’

A diabetic dad has spoken about how his ‘wicked fiancé’ tried to poison him with a ‘catastrophic’ dosage of insulin because she ‘thought he was being a k**b’.

Derek Turner, 50, who has type 1 diabetes, said Laura Hopkin sabotaged the remote Bluetooth device he uses to administer his insulin.

He said the 33-year-old ‘admitted’ she tried to give him 24.5 units of insulin ‘because he was being a k**b’.

It was only because he was up reading in bed at 2am that he ‘heard the alarm on his insulin pump go off’.

The father of three says he went downstairs and saw Hopkin try to hide the Bluetooth remote after the couple had argued earlier in the day.

Mr Turner was with Hopkin for 13 years after meeting in a pub she worked in, the Sunday Mirror reported.

He called an ambulance as well as the police and was forced to spend a night in hospital as his insulin levels regulated.

The engineer fears that had he been asleep he would’ve ‘gone into a coma and died’.

He has to use a pump to control his insulin levels and attaches it to a cannula in his stomach at night.

The device injects small amounts of insulin into his body through until morning.

When the capsule hits around 25 units, the alarm on the device goes off.

‘That’s how I know it happened. I realised insulin was going in. She gave me three doses, 10, 10, then four-and-a-half units,’ he said.

‘There’s a rubber tube with a clip on the end that connects the pump and cannula. So I pulled that out, left the pump on the bed and went downstairs.

‘That’s when I saw her trying to hide the remote. She tried to stuff it between herself and the cushion, but I saw it because the screen was lit up.

‘I reached over, took it off her and asked her “Why would you do that?” she said “because you were being a k**b”.

‘It could have killed me.’

Hopkin was spared jail last week following Mr Turner’s pleas with the judge to be lenient on her because they have a young daughter.

Mr Turner said: ‘Even though in one way I wanted him to throw the book at her, in another I didn’t want to see our daughter lose her mum.’

Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard the incident could have had a ‘catastrophic impact’ on Mr Turner’s health, had he not acted so quickly.

Hopkin, who only admitted the offence on the day of her trial last month, has been handed a suspended sentence.

The court heard she had given Mr Turner 24.5 units in total. The most he had taken before was 18 units and only after a large meal.

Hopkin denied the allegations and said her partner must have done it himself.

But the defendant went on to plead guilty to administering a poison or noxious substance with intent on the day of her trial last month.