A husband has been jailed after pouring boiling water over his wife while she was in the bath. IT manager Christopher Stanway and his wife had only been married for six months at the time of the incident.
And StokeonTrentLive reports he repeatedly attempted to get her to drop the issue with the police. The case was taken to Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court, and the 52-year-old is now starting a 14-month prison sentence after admitting assault and perverting the course of justice.
The court heard the incident happened in April last year at their Staffordshire flat. Prosecutor David Bennett said: "The marriage began to deteriorate. He became jealous and abusive. He began drinking. In February 2022 he began to get physically abusive. Nothing was reported to the police.
