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Ann Summers Nanny admits poisoning boss with screen wash after falling out with chef
By Rebecca Evans
Last updated at 10:24 AM on 4th February 2011
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A nanny faces jail after yesterday admitting poisoning Ann Summers boss Jacqueline Gold by lacing her food with screenwash.

Allison Cox spiked Miss Gold’s soup in an attempt to incriminate the lingerie tycoon’s personal chef, whom Cox had fallen out with.
Cox, 33, who had been caring for Miss Gold’s baby daughter Scarlett, could face up to five years in prison after entering her guilty plea at Guildford Crown Court.
Allison Cox who today admitted trying to poison Anne Summers tycoon Jacqueline Gold
Miss Gold, 50, the 16th richest woman in Britain with a reputed fortune of £180million, had become suspicious about the taste of food prepared by her chef.
She complained that her meals were too salty and her desserts too sugary – leaving the baffled cook to retrieve leftovers from the bin to test for herself.
It is understood that events came to a head when soup delivered to the London office of Miss Gold, who was referred to in court by her married name Cunningham, was branded ‘disgusting’.
Funny taste in her mouth: Businesswoman Jacqueline Gold was shocked when she learnt what her nanny had done to her
Tests found it contained traces of screenwash. Cox, of East Grinstead, West Sussex, was confronted and arrested at Miss Gold’s £6.5million mansion in Whyteleafe, Surrey, after returning from a day out with Scarlett.
Rachel Davies, prosecuting, said: ‘The defendant was employed as a nanny by Jacqueline Cunningham to look after her daughter. Also within the household was a cook responsible for providing the family’s meals and there was, it seems, some animosity from the defendant towards the cook.
‘This caused the defendant to put certain articles including screenwash, salt and sugar into food articles consumed by Miss Gold.’

Cox, wearing a bright fuchsia coat and black trousers, looked anxious as she stood in the dock. She spoke only to answer ‘guilty’ to the charge of unlawfully administering poison with the intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy in October last year.
She was initially charged with two other counts of poisoning Miss Gold with salt and sugar, but these were later dropped from the indictment.
Judge Christopher Critchlow released Cox on unconditional bail until sentencing on March 4, but warned that ‘all options were open’ – including a custodial sentence.
Miss Davies said that although only small amounts of screenwash were consumed, the crime had caused emotional distress.

She added: ‘The harm caused was not physical, but there was anxiety that it was happening. At the time the screenwash was consumed this defendant had taken the child of Mrs Cunningham on a day trip somewhere and obviously there was some concern when the complainant realised that the lady putting this into her food was away with her daughter.’
Friends of Miss Gold – daughter of West Ham United co-owner David Gold – said she was left ‘deeply shocked’ as she and Cox had a very good relationship.
Miss Gold, who is married to Daniel Cunningham, a City trader 16 years her junior, had twins Alfie and Scarlett in May 2009 after years of failed IVF treatment. Alfie was born with a severe brain disorder and died aged eight months.
Miss Gold, who has no formal business training, was 21 when she saw the potential of selling sexy lingerie and sex toys to women in the privacy of their own homes.
Since then she has transformed Ann Summers into a staple of the High Street with more than 130 branches.

She also runs underwear chain Knickerbox.

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