NESTON, UK. (THECOUNT) — Corinna Smith, of Neston, UK, has been identified as the mother sentenced to life in prison for killing her husband, Michael Baines, with a boiling mixture of water and sugar.
Smith doused her 80-year-old husband after learning he had sexually abused her two children, one who eventually committed suicide.
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According to reports, Smith poured a mixture of boiling water and sugar on Baines as he lay sleeping.
Prosecutors say Baines suffered serious burns to over one-third of his body. He suffered in a hospital for a month until he died.
The mixture “made the liquid more viscous, thicker and stickier, so that it stays on the skin and causes greater damage and that is exactly what it did,” prosecutors said.
Smith was described as “livid” and “fuming” after hearing from her daughter that Baines sexually abused the children when they were younger.
The daughter said Baines had sexually abused her and her brother “for many years when they were children.”
Craig, the son, told his mother he was attacked by a “pedophile” who had “touched him sexually”, the report says. He committed suicide in 2007 and was in prison for assault.
Smith was sentenced to life in prison and will serve a minimum of 12 years before being considered for parole.
Geo quick facts: Neston is a town and civil parish in the borough of Cheshire West and Chester, in the part of the Wirral Peninsula that remains in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Parkgate is located to the north west and the villages of Little Neston and Ness to the south of the town – Wikipedia.