Geelong woman in court over horror act of burning husband alive

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After dousing her husband in petrol and setting him on fire, Angela Surtees told emergency services he had suffered “superficial” burns. 7NEWS

could be heard crying out in pain in a recording of a triple-zero call made by his wife on January 25, 2019.Surtees had wanted her husband to fear he would catch on fire when she poured a red jerry can of unleaded petrol over her 36-year-old husband as he sat in an armchair in their Geelong home’s enclosed porch sunroom.

They’d been at an engagement party earlier in the day and an argument in the car on the way home continued when they returned to their Whittington property. Justice Andrew Tinney criticised the letter, noting neither it nor her police interview mentioned the trauma she inflicted on her husband.

 

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