Mum-of-six set alight by husband who poured petrol over her in car on way to work

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A twisted man poured petrol over his wife before setting her alight while she was trapped in a car. Harrowing details of Katrina Rainey's death were heard for the first time at Belfast Crown Court on Thursday where her husband Thomas Johnston Rainey appeared in the dock, reports Belfast Live.

The 61-year old previously confessed to murdering his 53-year-old wife at their family farm on Quarry Road in Knockloughrim on October 12, 2021.

Scotland legend Gordon McQueen laid to rest as family and football icons pay respect He was handed a life sentence in May this year when he admitted the charge and next week he'll be informed of the minimum time he'll serve in jail before being considered eligible for release.Mr Justice O'Hara described the mum-of-six's murder as the "ultimate act of domestic violence".Crown prosecutor Richard Weir KC told the court that before she was sedated and rushed to hospital when the incident occurred at 5.40am, the severely injured Co Derry woman miraculously was able to tell the emergency services what had happened.A 999 call was made a few minutes later and paramedics and police rushed to the farm.

When they arrived they witnessed Mrs Rainey's children placing wet towels on her as she lay on the ground.While medics tended to the badly burned woman, she told a doctor that she had been on her way to work when her husband opened the passenger door of her car, threw liquid round her then set her on fire.Before she taken by ambulance to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, Mrs Rainey was also able to give a statement to police at the scene.She told them: "I was going to work.