A man suffered a pregnant woman to have a miscarriage by secretly spiking her orange juice with an abortion-inducing drug has been jailed for 12 years.

Stuart Worby, 40, crushed a tablet of mifepristone into the drink of his victim then inserted another abortion drug inside her, after s£xually assaulting her while she was blindfolded. 

She had a severe physical reaction within a few hours, suffering vomiting, diarrhea, a high temperature and bleeding.

The woman, who is entitled to lifelong anonymity as the victim of a s£xual offence, was 15 weeks pregnant when she miscarried. 

The murderer, at first refused to take her to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, but he later did so and the following day she miscarried her healthy baby. 

As she lost her baby, Worby text a friend saying, ‘it’s working’ and, ‘there is lots of blood’.

In a victim impact statement read to the court the victim said she felt she had ‘failed to protect my baby’. She said she had ‘gone from fertility clinic to fertility clinic’ and ‘being a mother was a dream to me’.

Worby obtained two types of abortion drugs by persuading a friend’s partner to pretend she was pregnant so she could get prescribed them privately, then give them to him.

He is jailed for 12 years for administering poison or using an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage, and a concurrent eight years for s£xual assault by penetration.