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SHOCK ARREST: New video captures co-worker poisoning woman’s water AT WORK

She thought it tasted strange ‘for months’ - by Amy Sinclair
  • 04 Apr 2019

A man has been arrested after CCTV footage allegedly revealed that he’d been poisoning his c-worker’s water and food months.

The woman had claimed she’d noticed ‘a strange taste or smell from her water and food’ for months and had ‘immediate and significant health problems’ after drinking or eating.

SHOCK ARREST: New video captures co-worker poisoning woman’s water AT WORK

It was only when the engineer from California saw CCTV footage taken at her work - Berkeley Engineering and Research - that she discovered a co-worker had been poisoning her with a toxic metal called cadmium.

Police documents reveal the poisoning was so extreme that the woman was treated in hospital several times - as were two of her relatives who consumed drank from her water bottles. 

Blood samples taken from the woman and her relatives showed all three ‘had elevated levels of cadmium’. Experts say the metal, when consumed, can lead to ‘organ system toxicity, cancer and/or death’.

A police investigation lead the woman’s co-worker, 34-year-old engineer David Xu, to last week be charged with premeditated attempted murder over a five-month period and causing great bodily harm. He was also charged with two counts of felony poisoning ‘which may have caused death and which did cause the infliction of great bodily injury.’

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There appears to be no motive behind the vicious attacks at this stage, and Xu was being held in jail without bail. 

Bizarrely, this isn’t the first time an employee has used cadmium - typically used for manufacturing batteries - to poison their co-workers. 

Last month a German man was sentenced to life in prison for poisoning his co-worker’s sandwiches. It’s believed he carried out the attacks because he was interested to see how it would affect his fellow workers’ health. 

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry warns that when cadmium is taken in large quantities, it can lead to vomiting, diarrhoea, irritation of the stomach and even death. In smaller doses, it can lead to kidney damage and brittle bones. 

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