Vietnamese wife booked for attempting to poison mother-in-law

GWANGJU, Aug. 9 (Yonhap) -- Police said Tuesday that a Vietnamese woman married to a South Korean man has been booked without detention on charges of attempting to poison her mother-in-law.
Last week, the 23-year-old suspect, whose name is withheld, allegedly put poison in food she had prepared for her mother-in-law in her home in Gwangju, some 330 kilometers south of Seoul, according to the Gwangju Nambu Police Station.
The suspect, who came from the Southeast Asian country in 2008 to marry the unidentified man, told police that she was often ignored and verbally abused by her South Korean mother.
The murder attempt, however, failed as the 69-year-old mother realized beforehand that the meal was contaminated, police said, without elaborating.