Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A 'cruel' wife who poured boiling water and sugar over her husband as he slept has been handed a life sentence.
Corinna Smith, 59, poured the 'vicious' mixture over her 81-year-old husband Michael Baines, leaving him with 36 per cent burns to his body.
He sadly died of his injuries just over a month later. The day before the attack, Smith, from Neston, in Cheshire, was 'angry' and 'upset' about a rumour circulating about her husband, police said.
The next day, on July 14 last year, she returned home and filled a bucket from her garden with boiling water and three kilograms of sugar.
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