Moment Reservoir Dogs obsessed boyfriend doused lover in petrol and set her alight was arrested for her murder - after she died more than 20 years later
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This is the moment a Reservoir Dogs obsessed boyfriend who doused his lover in petrol and set her alight was arrested for her murder - after she died more than 20 years later.
Sadistic thug Steven Craig, 58, is filmed as he is told Jacqueline Kirk has died as a consequence of the injuries he caused her two decades before.
He is now facing life in prison after a jury today (Fri) found him guilty of murdering his then partner.
Newly-released footage shows the moment the shocked killer was re-arrested - this time for her murder.
He is seen crouching by a wall and rolling a cigarette as an officer tells him she has died of the injuries he caused tragic Jacqueline.
The video was released after a jury convicted Craig of murder after a three week trial at Bristol Crown Court.
He will be sentenced later.
A trial heard she died as a 'significant' result of injuries he inflicted on her during the copycat attack in 1998.
Craig soaked Kirk in petrol and set a lighter to her in imitation of the torture scene in Quentin Tarantino's 1991 movie, that she said he had 'fantasised' about.
Ms Kirk miraculously survived after suffering 35 per cent burns, undergoing 14 operations and spending nearly nine months in hospital.
But a murder trial heard that 21 years later, she died as a result of health complications that the prosecution argued were "more than minimally"caused by his actions.
Craig was originally convicted of GBH with intent after a trial in 2000 and jailed.
Prosecutor Richard Smith QC told the jury injuries inflicted during the attack were a "significant" cause of her subsequent death in August 2019.
The court heard the burns and scarring on her body meant that when her intestines swelled the rest of body could not adequately expand.
This caused her diaphragm to rupture and she died at the age of 62.
And without the scarring and burns she suffered as a result of the attack, Mr Smith argued that doctors would have operated on her to repair the rupture and saved her life.
Speaking after the case, Ms Kirk's daughter, Sonna, didn't (who didn't want to give her surname) paid tribute to her mother's bravery in living with the injuries she sustained.
She said: "She found it very hard because she couldn’t get people to understand what she was saying because the tracheostomy made it very hard for her voice to be heard.
“But she still made a big point of making her voice heard as much as she could.
“She survived and she wasn’t meant to survive.
“And then she wasn’t meant to recover and when we didn’t think she was ever going to come out of the coma they put her in, we just assumed that was going to be the last days of her life.
“But day by day went and after a month, they brought her out of the coma and she had to face god knows how many challenges and how many operations and the fact she had no voice and she was really weak and she was confined to this room in hospital.
“But she kept on going and she was determined to be herself again."
Sadistic thug Steven Craig, 58, is filmed as he is told Jacqueline Kirk has died as a consequence of the injuries he caused her two decades before.
He is now facing life in prison after a jury today (Fri) found him guilty of murdering his then partner.
Newly-released footage shows the moment the shocked killer was re-arrested - this time for her murder.
He is seen crouching by a wall and rolling a cigarette as an officer tells him she has died of the injuries he caused tragic Jacqueline.
The video was released after a jury convicted Craig of murder after a three week trial at Bristol Crown Court.
He will be sentenced later.
A trial heard she died as a 'significant' result of injuries he inflicted on her during the copycat attack in 1998.
Craig soaked Kirk in petrol and set a lighter to her in imitation of the torture scene in Quentin Tarantino's 1991 movie, that she said he had 'fantasised' about.
Ms Kirk miraculously survived after suffering 35 per cent burns, undergoing 14 operations and spending nearly nine months in hospital.
But a murder trial heard that 21 years later, she died as a result of health complications that the prosecution argued were "more than minimally"caused by his actions.
Craig was originally convicted of GBH with intent after a trial in 2000 and jailed.
Prosecutor Richard Smith QC told the jury injuries inflicted during the attack were a "significant" cause of her subsequent death in August 2019.
The court heard the burns and scarring on her body meant that when her intestines swelled the rest of body could not adequately expand.
This caused her diaphragm to rupture and she died at the age of 62.
And without the scarring and burns she suffered as a result of the attack, Mr Smith argued that doctors would have operated on her to repair the rupture and saved her life.
Speaking after the case, Ms Kirk's daughter, Sonna, didn't (who didn't want to give her surname) paid tribute to her mother's bravery in living with the injuries she sustained.
She said: "She found it very hard because she couldn’t get people to understand what she was saying because the tracheostomy made it very hard for her voice to be heard.
“But she still made a big point of making her voice heard as much as she could.
“She survived and she wasn’t meant to survive.
“And then she wasn’t meant to recover and when we didn’t think she was ever going to come out of the coma they put her in, we just assumed that was going to be the last days of her life.
“But day by day went and after a month, they brought her out of the coma and she had to face god knows how many challenges and how many operations and the fact she had no voice and she was really weak and she was confined to this room in hospital.
“But she kept on going and she was determined to be herself again."