By Alexander Dworkowitz
A cosmetics researcher was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for poisoning her cheating boyfriend, who later died in Flushing Hospital, the Queens district attorney said.
State Supreme Court Judge Robert Hanophy sentenced Ann Perry, 61, of 146 Awixa Ave. in Bayshore, L.I. on May 1.
Perry had pleaded guilty to manslaughter before Hanophy on Feb. 25.
Before the sentencing, Perry had been free on $500,000 bail, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
“The defendant has admitted her guilt and has acknowledged that she put a lethal does of thallium into a beverage which the victim then drank,” said Brown. “Her crime was serious and the punishment is warranted and just.”
Perry had lived with Rudy Wolmart, her boyfriend of 23 years, in Bayshore, the district attorney said.
On June 24, 2000, Perry, a self-employed cosmetics research and development consultant, gave Wolmart, a meat company manager, a protein shake containing thallium, a heavy metal often used in insecticides, prosecutors contended.
Perry poisoned Wolmart because he was seeing another woman and planning to leave her for good, the district attorney said.
The two then went for a drive in Queens. Wolmart passed out and was taken to Flushing Hospital, the district attorney said.
Wolmart lapsed into a coma and died four days later of acute and chronic thallium poisoning, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office.
Perry was arrested five months later when police from Flushing’s 109th Precinct traveled to Perry’s Bayshore home and arrested her, police said.
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