Steven Craig, 58, was handed a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years after inflicting horrendous injuries on Jacqueline Kirk in a Weston-super-Mare car park in 1998
A man has been jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years for murdering his girlfriend who died 21 years after he set her on fire.
Steven Craig, 58, inflicted horrendous injuries on Jacqueline Kirk in a car park in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, in April 1998.
He was convicted of grievous bodily harm with intent in relation to the attack on Ms Kirk, a mother-of-two, and handed a discretionary life sentence with a minimum term of nine years for that and two other offences.
Craig served over 15 years in prison but was arrested and charged with murder in June 2021 after Ms Kirk’s death aged 61 in August 2019.