Woman charged over alleged attempt to poison colleague's lunch

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• A Perth woman has been charged after allegedly putting poisonous snail pellets in a colleague's curry at a workplace in Oldbury, south-east of Perth. Police allege the 43-year-old woman added the pellets to food her colleague, 58, had brought to share.
• The colleague noticed bright green granules at lunchtime and reported numbness to her tongue after tasting it. Detectives allegedly identified the substance as metaldehyde-based snail pellets.
• The woman has been charged with endangering the life, health or safety of a person and is due to appear in Armadale Magistrates Court on November 5.