Man stabbed himself and set fire to £400,000 house to punish his husband
dailyrecord.co.ukA man who claimed his husband psychologically tortured him stabbed himself and set fire to their home in a botched suicide attempt.
Andrew Foster, doused the ground floor in petrol before dropping matches around his £400,000 house as his husband was out doing shopping in a bid to prevent his partner owning the house.
The 53-year-old then went to the garden where he stabbed and cut himself leaving a trail of blood from the house to the garden where he was found by his husband.
Weeks earlier Foster had discharged himself from hospital after being admitted in January 2021 following a suicide attempt. However, when he was confronted by a concerned neighbour in the garden as his kitchen was ablaze, Foster claimed he carried out the act because his husband and his family had been cruel to him for a few months.
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