Killer wife jailed for 19 years for feeding second husband poisoned curry is seen on shopping trip after being released
A KILLER wife who fed her husband a poisoned curry has been spotted on a shopping trip after she was released from jail.
Dena Thompson became known as the Black Widow killer because of the way she ensnared and manipulated her three husbands.
She relied on sustained seduction to trick men into falling in love with her, as a way to make money by conning and even killing the men trapped in her web.
Thompson served time for defrauding her two surviving husbands, and was cleared of trying to kill her third husband with a bat and a knife, claiming she was fearful for her life during a bondage session gone wrong.
But it was the death of her second husband, Julian Webb, which confirmed Thompson’s status as a cold and calculated killer.
It emerged in 2003 that the Black Widow had poisoned Julian on his 31st birthday in June 1994 by crushing a lethal dose of painkillers into his hot curry – a crime which saw her jailed for life.
But 19 year later – today the killer was seen out and about after being controversially set free by the Parole Board last month.
The 61-year-old was spotted after a spree in Poundland, dressed in a cheap black anorak, jeggings and Skechers trainers.
Her third husband, Richard Thompson who survived being attacked by the killer, today told Mail Online: “She’ll get karma.”
Martyn Underhill, a former detective chief inspector who exposed Thompson’s crimes said: “This woman is every man’s nightmare. For a decade, she targeted men sexually, financially and physically.
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“I believe she still poses a danger. The authorities must keep a close eye on her.”
From her early 20s Thompson, the daughter of a prison officer born in Hampstead, West London, used lonely hearts columns to cast her net throughout the South of England to find single men looking for love.
Driven by an intense hatred of men, she combined a bubbly personality with an apparent desire to please to lull her victims into a false sense of security.
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She would gain sympathy by falsely claiming to be dying of cancer and in fear of a violent former lover.
She would then seize the man’s savings while promising to pay them back once she had received money from a fictional lottery payout or the auctioning of a fake painting.