5 Dec 2019

'Black Widow' wins right to have body samples tested

From Checkpoint, 5:40 pm on 5 December 2019

The woman known as the "Black Widow" has won the right to have body samples of her dead husband released so they can be re-tested.

Helen Milner was jailed for life in 2014 and ordered to spend at least 17 years in prison for poisoning Philip Nisbet in 2009 - so she could get her hands on a $250,000 life insurance payout.

A decade on, the Court of Appeal has today granted Milner's request to get body samples released from ESR and sent to Australia for foresnic testing.

Jonathan Mitchell reports.