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Sunday Mirror,  Sep 14, 2003  by TOBY McDONALD


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FLAMBOYANT Scots MP Jimmy Wray has the secret of how to murder his wife down
to a tea.

The three-times-married MP revealed his fatal formula to stunned colleagues
during a Commons debate on fluoridation of water.

Mr Wray told them that all he needed to get away with the perfect crime was
a few loving cuppas.

The member for Glasgow Baillieston told open-mouthed fellow MPs that if the
chemical is added to public supplies, all you would need to do is boil a
kettle several times - leading to a dangerous build- up of the chemical once
used to kill rats, he said.

The ex-boxer and coalman told astonished colleagues: "The easiest way to get
rid of one's wife, if one wanted to, would be to go to a city with
fluoridated water and boil a kettle two or three times a night.

"That would produce a film in the kettle because of high concentration of
fluoride. If one were to stir a spoonful of that substance into her tea, she
would be dead within 10 seconds. That is the danger. That is the problem."

Fluoride toothpaste sold in the US carries a mandatory health warning,
labelling it as poison. The Scottish Executive is currently considering
fluoridation as part of a plan to improve dental health - which costs over
pounds 200 million a year - and will announce its decision next month.

But yesterday the MP's wife Laura Walker, 39, said she would still be
sipping tea with her husband. "I don't know where he gets these things," she
said. "It sounds like the perfect crime to me. But it is right in the sense
that fluoride is used as rat poison and is particularly effective."

She added: "I have to say he doesn't often make me a cup of tea. It's
usually the other way round, so I think I'm safe."

A long-time campaigner against fluoridation, the MP gave his toxic recipe
during the Second Reading of the Water Bill in the Commons

Yesterday Mr Wray,62, said: "What happens when water is boiled is that the
fluoride in it becomes concentrated and causes a film to appear right round
the kettle.

"There was no intention to give a recipe for murder. I was just trying to
prove a point."

Controversy over the addition of fluoride to the water is high.

Scottish children have higher decay levels than those in others parts of
Britain, with 55 per cent having dental disease by the age of five.

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