By Lisa Dowd, Midlands Correspondent
A care home worker has admitted trying to murder three colleagues at a sheltered housing complex by poisoning them.
Melissa Swift, 23, who had also worked as a special constable with West Midlands Police, laced drinks that everyone at the care unit had access to with bleach.
She wept at Birmingham Crown Court as she also pleaded guilty to threatening to kill her estranged sister and another care home colleague.
In August last year, 32 residents and staff were taken ill with food poisoning at the Goldfield Court complex, in West Bromwich, with symptoms including nausea, diarrhoea and severe headaches.
One person who suffered stroke-like symptoms has since made a full recovery.
Detective Chief Inspector Michaela Kerr said: "Melissa deceived her colleagues and hatched a plan to cause ill to those she worked with as a result of some malice, for which we have never truly discovered the cause.
"She not only thought out a way of poisoning her work mates but also followed the plan through and administered bleach to their drinks, leaving them in the usual staff fridge where she knew they would go.
"The plan was dangerous, reckless and hugely alarming.
"There is nothing to have stopped anyone from consuming the drinks she tampered with and, given the nature of her profession and workplace as a care provider, she went against everything her dedicated colleagues worked for.
"Thankfully no one was seriously injured as a result of what she did, but the story could so easily have been different."
Police said Swift had sent anonymous threats in letters smeared with blood to her sister and a colleague.
A short time before her arrest, she left her role as a special constable.
She has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced in April.
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