Furious Mom Kills Sleeping Husband By Throwing Boiling Water On Him For Sexually Assaulting Her Children

Corinna Smith killed her sleeping husband after her daughter confided in her that she and her brother were sexually assaulted by Michael Baines when they were kids. Smith's son passed away in 2007 after he killed himself. Before his death, her son confided in her that he attacked the person who was a pedophile and sexually assaulted him when he was a kid. Joining the dots, Smith decided to take an action and inflict punishment[ on the man herself.

Corinna Smith, 59, killed her sleeping husband, Michael Baines, 80, by pouring boiling water with sugar on him.

Reportedly, the incident happened after Smith's daughter told her that she and her brother were sexually abused by Michael when they were kids. 

“Livid” and “fuming” Smith boiled up two kettles of water and mixed it with three bags of sugar in a garden bucket. 

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After that, she went downstairs to the bedroom and poured the molten sugar over the sleeping man.

The woman was later arrested for her actions and faced life imprisonment. 

As per the prosecutors, the sugar “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”. Baines suffered burns on 36% of his body.

He was admitted into the Whiston Hospital Burns Unit critical care unit and then into the high dependency unit. He endured skin grafts and surgeries but he eventually passed away due to his injuries five weeks after the incident, on August 18, 2021.

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The incident happened on July 14, 2021, when Smith's daughter revealed that Baines sexually abused the siblings  “for many years when they were children”.

Reportedly her brother, Craig had passed away in 2007 after he took his own life at the age of 25.

Craig lived a troubled life and even faced prison time for assault. Before his death, he had admitted to his mother that the person he assaulted was a pedophile who had “touched him sexually“.

Now years later, Smith was able to connect the dots between the incidents and administered punishment to the man herself.

At court, Judge Amanda Yip, QC, stated to her, “You found it difficult to take everything in, but made the connection between what Craig had said the day before he died and what your daughter was telling you. You were understandably very upset. You were described as being livid and fuming at the thought of what had been done to your children.”

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Later on, Judge Yip stated, “Killing Mr. Baines also took away any opportunity for the allegations to be tested. That took away his right to a fair trial, bearing in mind that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. I have no doubt that this has caused untold pain to Mr. Baines’ children. The allegations are left hanging but unproven…”

Prosecutors claimed during the jury trial that even though her actions were of understandable reason but she did inflict fatal injuries on her husband and for that, she needs to get punishment. 

“We cannot and do not say whether these allegations made about Michael Baines are true or not… but that is not the issue for you in this case because the prosecution certainly accept that these allegations were made, and that Corinna Baines believed them to be true at the time that she caused the fatal injuries to Michael.“

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However, this argument felt weak when considering the planning that went into the attack, including adding the sugar and boiling water for 13 minutes to fill the bucket. 

Mark Rhind, QC, said: “The prosecution case is that her actions were deliberate and considered, that whilst she would obviously have been very upset and distressed about what she had heard, the evidence will demonstrate that she was in control and acted in anger and to extract vengeance for what she believed that Michael had done"

"We say that she intended either to kill Michael or to cause him really serious harm and so she is guilty of murder.”

The court was further told that after pouring the boiling water, Smith left the house and went to a neighbor where she said, “I’ve hurt him really bad, I think I’ve killed him”. 

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The neighbor called the police and ambulance, who found Baines in agony as the skin on his arm and hand peeled off.

He said to them, “I’m badly burned. I’m burned all over. She poured boiling water all over me. I just want to die.”

The court agreed that Smith didn’t intentionally try to kill Baines.

In a police interview, she admitted, “I accept that I poured boiling water over Michael with sugar in it. The whole thing is a bit of a blur. Minutes became seconds. I just lost it and was so emotional, I was not acting out of revenge.”

Detective Chief Inspector Paul Hughes said, “Smith killed her husband Michael in such a painful and cruel way. To throw boiling water over someone when they are asleep is absolutely horrific. To also mix three bags of sugar with the water showed the determination she had to cause serious harm.
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