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Claire Hayhurst

Man receives second life sentence for Reservoir Dogs-inspired murder

Steven Craig, 58, inflicted horrendous injuries on Jacqueline Kirk in a car park in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, in April 1998 (Avon and Somerset Police/PA)

A man convicted of murdering his former partner, who died 21 years after he set her alight, has received his second life sentence for the “gratuitous, deliberate and monstrous” attack.

Steven Craig, 58, was inspired by a scene from the Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs when he doused Jackie Kirk in petrol and held a lighter to her face in a car park in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, in April 1998.

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