Mum killed husband with boiling water after being told he had abused their children
sexually abused her son and daughter. Corinna Smith mixed sugar with boiling water and poured it over 80-year-old Michael Bains while he slept.After hearing from her daughter that her partner had preyed on her children when they were much younger, Smith fetched a bucket from her garden, boiled two kettles of water and mixed it with three bags of sugar.The 59-year-old was described as being "livid" and "fuming" as she went into the downstairs bedroom she shared with her husband in Neston and poured the boiling liquid over him while he slept.