Accused grandma killer Alaine Dawn Sturnilo tampered with medication of May ‘Dawn’ Gladstone Baldwin, court hears

A Perth woman posted on social media she “hated” her grandmother and wanted to “change her life status” in the months before she tampered with the elderly woman’s medication, causing her death, the WA Supreme Court has been told.

Alaine Dawn Sturniolo, 39, is on trial accused of murdering 91-year-old May Dawn Gladstone Baldwin, who died in hospital seven days after she was found lying on her back in her Wembley Downs home, in January 2012.

It is alleged Ms Baldwin’s medication had been swapped by Ms Sturniolo with medication that had been prescribed for her uncle…