Joe Cinque was a civil engineer, living in Canberra, who died in 1997 as a result of a heroin overdose administered by his girlfriend Anu Singh.
Main article: Anu Singh
Cinque's death was a widely reported crime in Australia, due to its unusual circumstances, in which Singh and her friend Madhavi Rao spoke widely of Singh's plans to kill him (and possibly herself) with a heroin overdose, including hosting two dinner parties in the lead up to hi...
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Joe Cinque was a civil engineer, living in Canberra, who died in 1997 as a result of a heroin overdose administered by his girlfriend Anu Singh.
Main article: Anu Singh
Cinque's death was a widely reported crime in Australia, due to its unusual circumstances, in which Singh and her friend Madhavi Rao spoke widely of Singh's plans to kill him (and possibly herself) with a heroin overdose, including hosting two dinner parties in the lead up to his death. Singh laced Cinque's coffee with Rohypnol and then injected a large dose of heroin. Singh was subsequently acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter over the death, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. She was paroled after four years.
Main article: Joe Cinque's Consolation
The incident was the basis of Australia author Helen Garner's book Joe Cinque's Consolation, which Garner ended up trying to position as partial redress to Cinque in a way that the justice system could not provide.
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