Child molester eats poison-laced Snickers bar in court after he was found guilty of sex attacks to try and escape justice

A child molester secretly took a bite of a poisoned chocolate bar he smuggled into court in a desperate bid to escape justice when he was found guilty of sexual assault.

The 76-year-old had injected the Snickers bar with deadly poison before sentencing at the County Court of Victoria.

As judgment was being passed on his malice, he pulled the spiked snack from his pocket and managed to eat a bite of it during the hearing in June.

But the apparent suicide attempt failed and instead the poison damaged his kidneys, injured his shoulder and dislocated a finger as he fell to the ground in pain.

He was found guilty of two historic charges of sexual penetration of a child under 16 and two charges of committing indecent acts with a child under 16.

“At the time the first guilty plea was read, he was eating the Snickers bar,” defense attorney Fraser Cameron said.

“(That’s) how he handled the verdict. He was scared.’

The 76-year-old had injected the Snickers bar with deadly poison before sentencing at the County Court of Victoria (pictured)

The sex offender, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was later released from hospital and has been in prison awaiting sentencing in the three months since.

“The treatment of his injuries following the sentencing has been successful,” Cameron said. the Sydney Morning Herald reported. “He has been stabilized in custody.”

The man was brought to court from prison on Monday to hear a victim impact statement from the young girl he targeted after the death of her father more than thirty years ago.

The court was told he abused her for 10 years from the age of four at a home in regional Victoria, and threatened to kill the rest of her family if she ever spoke up.

She said the abuse occurred almost daily, with her branding the attacker an evil monster, and that memories of her ordeal still haunted her decades later.

The man was brought to court from prison on Monday to hear a victim impact statement from the young girl he targeted after the death of her father more than thirty years ago.

“I was the scared little girl who cried herself to sleep wishing my father would come back and save me,” she said as she read her statement in court.

“My adulthood is still haunted by your madness. I was (your) favorite mistake. I was cared for and abused throughout my childhood.’

But she said she had tried to overcome the devastating attacks, adding: “I am a survivor.

“I am not what happened to me – I am what I chose to become.”

He will be sentenced at a later date and faces 10 years in prison for being a serious sex offender.