Anu Singh
| Anu Singh | |
|---|---|
| Born |
3 September 1972 India |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Criminal charge | Manslaughter of Joe Cinque |
| Criminal penalty | 10 years imprisonment |
| Criminal status | Released |
 Joe Cinque is Dead, Late Night Live interviews with Singh and Cinque's parents, first broadcast 23 September 2004. |
Anu Singh (born 3 September 1972) is an Australian woman, convicted in 1999 of the 1997 manslaughter of her then boyfriend Joe Cinque in Canberra. Singh, who was a law student at the Australian National University during the time of Cinque's death, laced his coffee with rohypnol before injecting him with heroin. Singh was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, but was released early in 2001. Since her release, she has undertaken criminology research. Her crime has been portrayed in literature and in film.
Anu Singh was born to Indian parents–Paddy and Surinder Singh–both doctors. The family immigrated from India to Sydney in 1973, when Signh was a baby. They settled in the suburb of Strathfield. Signh attended Catholic high school in Newcastle, New South Wales, where she was the dux of Year 10 in 1988. She graduated high school in 1990 and moved to Canberra the following year to begin studying a double degree in Economics/Law at the Australian National University. Singh missed her life in Sydney, engaged in recreational drug use while living in Canberra, and frequently called home to her parents.
Cinque and Singh met in Newcastle in 1995. The following year, Singh and Cinque were living together in Canberra while she was a law student at the Australian National University. During the 1998 trial, one of Singh's friends testified that she had been obsessed with her body since 1991 and had briefly taken Ipecac after Cinque mentioned it, something she was later angry with him for. Singh was reportedly obsessed with fad diets and would spend hours working out at the gym.
In May 1997 Singh told a friend that she wanted to kill several people, including Cinque and her doctors.
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