Posted on 01/21/2005 12:42:50 PM PST by ambrose
Fri 21 Jan 2005
3:02pm (UK)
'Woman Set Fire to Lesbian Ex-Lover in Jealous Rage'
By Nick Foley, PA
A woman who doused a bed in petrol and set it alight while her lesbian former lover lay naked with a new girlfriend was today warned she faced a “substantial” jail term.
Jealous Sarah Metcalfe, 46, of no fixed abode, discovered her ex-girlfriend Katie Wrigglesworth in bed with Emma Shakesheff in a caravan she owned at Goldsbrough Mill Farm, near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.
Leeds Crown Court heard how Metcalfe set fire to the bedroom in a desperate bid to stop them having sex on July 20, last year.
The pair were initially trapped in the blaze, but escaped through a window.
Ms Wrigglesworth, 26, suffered 40% partial thickness burns to her arms, legs and body and had to spend 10 weeks in hospital.
Ms Shakesheff, 32, sustained extensive second degree burns to 44% of her body and spent six weeks at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, the court heard.
Metcalfe had pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm earlier in the trial, but insisted it was an accident.
Mr Justice Royce today discharged the jury after they had failed to reach a verdict on two counts of GBH with intent after more than five hours of deliberations.
Metcalfe, whose son was watching in the public gallery, then pleaded to an alternative charge of arson reckless as to whether life would be endangered.
Sentencing was adjourned for reports, but Mr Justice Royce warned Metcalfe that she faced a “substantial term of imprisonment”.
During the five-day trial the court heard how Metcalfe’s and Ms Wrigglesworth’s four-year relationship had ended in June last year, but the pair continued to use their caravan.
Metcalfe described how her heart “dropped to her socks” when she walked in on her former lover caressing a new girlfriend.
She became embroiled in a heated argument with her ex, who eventually stormed off stating: “I’ve had enough of this, I’m off to bed to make love to my bird.”
A few moments later she saw the pair having sex through an open bedroom door.
She later told police that her former partner had been “rubbing her nose in it” and grabbed a petrol can from the caravan.
She told the court she poured the petrol over the bed and just “wanted them to stop”.
Metcalfe, who had downed six or seven pints of beer and a few whiskies, then flicked a lighter and the room became engulfed in a wall of flames.
She went outside and helped pull Ms Shakesheff out of a window, through which Ms Wrigglesworth had already escaped and went to call the emergency services.
The victims, who were in court today, are still recovering from their injuries.
Metcalfe was remanded in custody for sentence at a date to be fixed.
where's this tender love they speak of...? are not people of the same sex pref supposed to be more sensitive and caring and loving than us straight people?
JD Ping
Hot women in bed?
Yeah, I got that E-Mail yesterday.
"Jealous Sarah Metcalfe, 46, of no fixed abode, discovered her ex-girlfriend Katie Wrigglesworth in bed with Emma Shakesheff.."
I'm sorry but the names and the 'of no fixed abode' part just strike me as very funny even though this was a terrible thing. I would think that anyone named 'Jealous Sarah' would be a tip off at the git go...
Miss Wrigglesworth reportedly said, "I wanted some hot lesbo sex, but this is ridiculous."
Trouble in queer paradise.
I thought the problem was that her former partner was no longer doing that.
If you can't lick them, then burn them.
I heard Miss Wrigglesworth's favorite flannel shirt and golf clubs were destroyed in the fire.
An unfortunate juxtaposition of sentences...
Why should straight people have a monopoly on violent crime? And a lot of "these people" would make better parents than a lot of notable heterosexuals like O.J., Bobby Blake, Scotty Peterson, the wacko lady from Texas who drowned her kids, the wacko lady from South Carolina who drowned her kids, Joel Steinberg, etc., etc.
Consumed by the flames of love...
Come on baby light my fire...
So that's what they mean when they say...hot box...
The flames of lust...
give new meaning to the word "flamer".........
I guess the sex wasn't all that hot.
Oh I dunno . . . they sound a bit ike Hobbit names to me.
Bingo.
I am the god of hell fire, and I bring you
Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn
I'll see you burn
You fought hard and you saved and earned
But all of it's going to burn
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you've really been so blind
Now 's your time, burn your mind
You're falling far too far behind
Oh no, oh no, oh no, you're gonna burn
Fire, to destroy all you've done
Fire, to end all you've become
I'll feel you burn
You've been living like a little girl
In the middle of your little world
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you've really been so blind
Now 's your time, burn your mind
You're falling far too far behind
OOhhh
Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn
You're gonna burn, you're gonna burn
You're gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn
Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn
Fire, I'll take you to bed
"Katie Wrigglesworth, you've got to be kidding"..
My first impression also...almost skipped the article after reading that name.
I thought it was a spoof!
But as I'm starting to understand, Britain must be where all the liberals who were going to leave America went.
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