71-year-old pharmacist who subtly poisoned her partner for a month in order to use his bank cards to go on a £6,000 shopping spree was sentenced for se...

53-year-old Lily Cartier took medicines from her job and hid them in her partner's food and beverages.
For nearly a year, a gorgeous pharmacist poisoned her partner in order to use his bank cards for extravagant jewelry purchases and to inherit his luxury automobile.

Lily Cartier, 53, a part-time model, took potent medications from her job and secreted them into meals and beverages she made for John Sharrard, a man almost 20 years her senior.

When Mr. Sharrard started slurring his words, dribbling, and having trouble walking, his family became worried, but neurologists were baffled as to what was causing his decline.

A toxicology test was conducted and the horrific reality was only discovered after Mr. Sharrard's brother, Mike, a molecular scientist, and other family members expressed concerns to medical professionals.

Cartier, who left her native Syria for Britain in 2007, was found guilty of two counts of poisoning and two counts of fraud yesterday. She faces a minimum sentence of seven years in prison. Yesterday, Mr. Sharrard's son and sister talked about how heartbroken they were to see such a social and energetic man quickly decline without any explanation.



It is hard to put into words how sad it was to see Martin Sharrard, who loved to travel and go on walks, turn into an unresponsive person who couldn't do daily tasks. Mr. Sharrard, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 71 from unrelated bladder cancer, first encountered Cartier in the upscale Jimmy Choo store in Paris in 2014, the same October that she moved into his Weybridge, Surrey, home.



Mr. Sharrard started having problems opening and closing his jaw and walking in February 2017.



Despite negative test results, he saw two neurologists who suspected Parkinson's disease and was prescribed useless medicine.



That October, the senior stocktaker and retired Woolworths store manager collapsed when working in Guernsey, then two weeks later, while shopping at Waitrose.

Prosecutors claim that the anticoagulant medication warfarin, which Cartier added to the cereal, is what gave the father of two's milk a strange flavor before he collapsed.

After Mr. Sharrard's heart rate dropped to 37 beats per minute, tests measuring the amount of time it took for his blood to clot produced abnormal results. She stated that even if the poisoning is not thought to have caused Mr. Sharrard's bladder cancer, Cartier took some of the best years of Mr. Sharrard's life away.

It is difficult to comprehend how a human being could treat another person in such a manner, especially someone who loved and cared for them,'said the disgusting, heartless woman. She placed such little value on my brother's life.

The fact that Mr. Sharrard eventually discovered true love with a different woman in the closing years of his life, according to Ms. Llompart, gave her some comfort.

Judge Judith Coello sentenced Cartier, stating that she firmly believed the pharmacist posed a risk to the public, particularly men.

She remarked, "It was a wicked campaign against a man who loved you and wanted to be with you forever."

In this instance, there is no mitigation and you have showed zero regret at all. Cartier, whose real name was Laila Al-Berrawi, was wearing a blue blouse under a black cardigan and looked emotionless from the dock when the punishment was being given.