Squabbling sibling who put laxatives in sister's milk during house inheritance bust-up rumbled after she put up camera near fridge

A squabbling sibling put laxatives in his sister's milk during a bust-up over the inheritance of their family home - before she put a camera up near the fridge and caught him red handed. Robert McCabe's sister Sharon noticed a four-pint bottle smelt of chemicals as the row grew increasingly bitter.

Suspecting something was amiss, she put up a camera with her son's help. McCabe, 69, was rumbled when they watched the footage back. It showed him holding a 'white piece of paper' over the milk and 'tipping something' into it.

He was hauled before the courts, where his sister spoke in a statement of the impact of his actions. "I was shocked and saddened that he could be so malicious and vindictive towards me," Sharon McCabe wrote.

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Minshull Street Crown Court heard defendant McCabe lived at the Heywood house with Sharon and brother Desmond. Their mother earlier rented the home from the council, Daniel Lister, prosecuting, said.

When she died, the three siblings continued to live there. McCabe later became the owner. Another brother, Dennis, who lived in Australia, returned home and 'funded the mortgage', Mr Lister said, but it was the defendant's name on the paperwork.

In his will, Dennis said he wanted Sharon's son to get the house. That led to a row between the siblings.

McCabe put laxatives in his sister's milk on two or three occasions over a two-week period - before he was caught on camera. Sharon, who has pancreatitis, experienced stomach pains in April 2020 and was hospitalised.

She was discharged and, after