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Man on trial for murder of partner who died 21 years after he set her on fire

Bristol crown court
Steven Craig in on trial at Bristol crown court. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images

A woman whose partner doused her with petrol and set her on fire died more than two decades after the attack partly as a result of the terrible scarring she suffered, a murder jury has been told.

Steven Craig, 58, is accused of the murder of Jacqueline Kirk, who died in hospital in Bath 21 years after he set her alight in a car park in the Somerset seaside town of Weston-super-Mare.

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