Rumor spread about her husband and she killed him by throwing him boiling candy | the Chronicle

Corinne Smith, 59, was convicted of murdering her husband while he was sleeping at their home in Wirral, Cheshire ( England), and in a rarely seen way: He poured boiling water mixed with sugar, a combination that makes up caramel. It turns out the couple had a fight and the woman already came with several days of accumulated anger.

The incident happened on July 14, 2020. Corinna combined the liquid with three bags of sugar and brought it to a boil. In the face of the fury, the mixture poured it straight onto the body of 80-year-old Michael Baines as he slept in his bed, no matter how badly he was doing. Then he ran to a neighbor’s house and said, “I hurt him a lot, I think I killed him.

Apparently, the day before the attack, Corinna was angry and very upset about a rumor going around about her husband that she believed to be true. As she was also her husband’s babysitter due to her old age, she filled a bucket in her garden with boiling water. Then he added three bags of sugar to make the liquid thicker and stickier, and instead of applying it to a recipe, anger overtook her and she spread it all over her chest and arms before fleeing the marital home.

Following the incident, Smith was initially charged with grievous bodily harm. Shortly after the death of her husband, who did not get over the burns, she was charged with murder. Detective Chief Inspector Paul Hugues, of cheshire police, He said: ‘Smith killed her husband Michael in a painful and cruel manner “.