A Romanian couple who killed two married men after drugging them unconscious to steal jewellery and cash during sexual liaisons have each been jailed for 17 years.
Adina Mihai, 31, and Madalin Dumitru, 30, were sentenced at Oxford Crown Court after admitting to the manslaughter of Gary Mouat, 37, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, and Malcolm King, 80, from Bagendon, Gloucestershire, in 2025 and 2024 respectively.
Mihai, who posed as a sex worker, and her partner Dumitru, arranged to meet men paying for sex at their homes.
Oxford Crown Court heard four were drugged when glasses of wine were spiked with the powerful sedative gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) so the two defendants could take money from them.
Mr King and Mr Mouat, two of the victims, died.
At a previous hearing, the pair, formerly of Ilford, Essex, pleaded guilty to two charges of manslaughter and to administering poison to two other men, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Jailing the pair, Mrs Justice Brunner said: “Your joint intention was to incapacitate each victim making them deeply unconscious.
“The administration of the drug was haphazard and depended on the strength of each batch, the amount put into drinks, and the amount they drunk.
“This did not involve the administration of a fixed dose.
“I find that you were not aware of the deaths of any of your victims before administering the drugs to other victims.
“You intended to render your victims deeply unconscious.
“If you had stopped for a moment to consider the risks, as you should have done, you would have realised that it carried a high risk of serious injury or death at the very moment you administered that drug.
“If you had done the most cursory research, you would know that GBL can be extremely toxic.
“You both could and should have researched open sources.”