Posted on 06/18/2021 11:21:19 AM PDT by simpson96
A woman seeking to “extract revenge” against her husband has been found guilty scalding him to death with a fatal mixture of boiling water and sugar.
Corinna Smith, 59, was convicted of murder for the July 14, 2020 attack of her 81-year-old husband, Michael Baines, at their shared home in Neston, Cheshire, England. Smith filled a garden bucket with the scalding hot liquid and threw it onto Baines’ arms and torso as he slept. She then fled to a neighbor’s house and admitted what she’d just done, according to local news outlet Cheshire Live.
“I’ve hurt him really bad,” she cried to her neighbors. “I think I’ve killed him.”
When first responders arrived at the scene, they found Baines whimpering in bed. The liquid caused the flesh of his arm and hand to peel off.
“The sugar placed into the water makes it vicious,” said Detective Chief Inspector Paul Hughes of the Cheshire Constabulary’s Major Crime Directorate, according to the New York Post. “It becomes thicker and stickier and sinks into the skin better. It left Michael in agony, and rather than call the emergency services, she wasted time by going to a house nine doors away to tell a neighbor, who she wasn’t close to, what she had done.”
Baines initially survived the attack and was rushed to Whiston Hospital. However, he died of his injuries a month later in the hospital.
Initially, Smith was charged with grievous bodily harm. Those charges were upgraded to murder upon her husband’s death.(snip)
It was not clear what events provoked the attack.
Smith was found guilty of murder on Tuesday after a five-day trial at Chester Crown Court.
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the sugar raises the boiling point and let’s the mixture get a lot hotter than water alone would
She didn’t kill him the boiling water killed him! How long before England bans boiling water?
Sick b!tch. They should turn her in to a skin graft farm for burn victims.
They were married 38 years, according to the Mirrow, indicating she was 21 and he 43 on the wedding.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wife-murdered-husband-pouring-bucket-24332549
It was some sort of dispute. My guess is she thought she would inherit more money than was the case.
She should claim she was Muslim, that she was trying to do a homemade acid attack, and demand the UK respect her religion or sumthin’.
She worked her plan to perfection, so she’s got that going for her.
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Nobody knows how to spell “viscous” anymore.
Sugar also raises the boiling point of water.
This woman watched too many prison shows, I think.
Doubt it. Burn deaths are pretty predetermined on extent and age
I guess now we’ll see warning labels on Hummingbird food.
If Inspector Hughes actually did say it that way we can be sure they got his job description right because he is definitely not the Detective Chief Inspector of the Cheshire Vocabulary’s Major Crime Directorate.
I thought the gold digging crook that my Dad married after my Mom died was the most evil person I’d ever come across. This woman exceeds even her.
My British wife confirms this. It is an absolute nightmare. She worked in the home care industry for several years and had clients she had to escort to the hospital. Man, the tales she tells me about what she saw on the wards are almost unbelievable. It is a shambles. Good luck getting prompt medical attention in NHS hospitals. Better off going to a veterinarian
England. She’ll get 90 days and probation.
Yes! My nephew’s wife who is both a civilian and a U.S. Army Reserve nurse did a rotation at a London area hospital. She said the conditions were appalling. She had her family in the States send her medical care packages that included routine equipment and supplies: gloves, masks, gauze, bandages, tape, scissors, Kleenex, paper towels, soap, sanitizer, alcohol swabs. Basic items that were in short supply or not available through the NHS. Sad.
She was imitating a recent scene from the Australian crime drama, “Mr Inbetween.” In S03e02 (first aired on May 25th), the ‘protagonist,’ who has been locked up on assault charges, takes ‘a job’ to mess up a fellow inmate. He puts a bunch of packets of jelly/marmalade in a coffee cup, fill is with boiling water, then throws it in his victim’s face.
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