Italian woman gets 4 years in jail for spiking coworkers’ coffee

A woman in Italy has been sentenced to four years in prison after she took workplace rivalry to the extremes — spiking her colleague’s coffee as job cuts loomed so the coworker would get fired … and not her.

Mariangela Cerrato of Bra, Piedmont, was found guilty of putting sedatives in Alice Bordon’s coffee over a period of several months in 2017 so as to discredit Bordon in front of the company’s bosses.

Bordon told the newspaper La Stampa (via the Guardian) she “had always trusted the colleague and was still incredulous that she had tried to ‘eliminate’ her by slipping a tranquilizer into her coffee so that she would feel sleepy and underperform at work.”

Cerrato’s plot began in October 2017 when she bought Bordon a coffee from a nearby bar.

“Usually I would just sip it, but on that day, I drank it all in one gulp,” Bordon told La Stampa. Bordon went back to work and soon lost her balance noting: “Everything was black, I felt like I was floating.”