Viagra News (2005)

Investigations on in the Viagra-Poisoning Case

Date: December 13, 2005

In Christchurch, New Zealand, there is a case of sexual assault going on where the jury has to decide whether the man in question is guilty or not.

The case is of a w ealthy Christchurch businessman who has supposedly laced a microwave TV dinner with Viagra in the hope of having sex with a young real estate saleswoman. Investigations are still going on to find whether the man was guilty or was it that an ambitious young woman crushed the tablet into her own meal in an act of revenge.

The well-known Canterbury businessman, who has interim name suppression, denies luring the woman - more than 30 years his junior - to lunch at his Mid-Canterbury homestead where he is alleged to have put the male sex enhancement drug in her microwaved spaghetti bolognese. He denies charges of poisoning with intent and indecent assault.

A jury of seven men and five women retired this morning to consider their verdict after Judge Phil Moran summed up.

The complainant, in her early 20s, claimed in evidence on the first day of the trial on Monday that the meal tainted with pill fragments made her feel "woozy" and out of control. While she was affected, the businessman lunged at her and tried to kiss her, she claimed.

Judge Moran said the defence said simply that the crown had not proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, suggesting the complainant may have drugged her own meal in some way to force the businessman to include her in an exclusive property deal.