Jailed for trying to give his mistress a miscarriage

A married Home Office boss who spiked his pregnant mistress’s orange juice with drugs to cause a miscarriage has been jailed for almost four years. Darren Burke, 43, wanted Laura Slade to have an abortion to keep his double life secret from his wife but she refused, Isleworth Crown Court heard. He crushed tablets of mifepristone into Ms Slade’s glass and asked her to drink it, saying she needed to keep her vitamins up. When she became suspicious Burke poured…