A woman who murdered her husband in his bed walked to a neighbour's house moments later to tell them what she had done
Corinna Baines, of Highfield Road in Neston, mixed two kettles of boiling water with three bags of sugar and threw it on Michael Baines as he lay sleeping.
The brutal attack left the 81-year-old with burns that covered more than a third of his body.
Michael Baines died from his injuries in Whiston Hospital after five weeks of treatment.
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On Tuesday, Baines was found guilty of murdering her husband after 38 years of marriage at Chester Crown Court.
The 59-year-old, who has a son with Mr Baines as well as children from a previous relationship, was described as angry and very upset over a family dispute before carrying out the attack.
Shortly after midnight she filled a bucket from her garden with boiling water and mixed it with three bags of sugar.
As Mr Baines lay asleep in bed she poured the contents over his arms and torso and then left the property.
Instead of calling emergency services for help straight away, in the early hours of the morning on July 14, 2020, she went to a neighbours house and banged on the front door until the resident answered.
She told the neighbour who lived nine doors away: "I've hurt him, I've hurt him really bad. I think I’ve killed him."
She was prosecuted as Corinna Baines but has since begun using the name Corinna Smith, the ECHO understands.
Detective chief inspector Paul Hughes, from Cheshire Constabulary’s Major Crime Directorate, said: "Smith [Baines] killed her husband Michael in such a painful and cruel way.
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"To throw boiling water over someone when they are asleep is absolutely horrific. To also mix three bags of sugar with the water showed the determination she had to cause serious harm.
"The sugar placed into the water makes it vicious. It becomes thicker and stickier and sinks into the skin better. It left Michael in agony and rather than call the emergency services she wasted time by going to a house nine doors away to tell a neighbour, who she wasn’t close to, what she had done.
"Michael was an elderly man who fought for his life after the attack but sadly in the end he passed away. My thoughts continue to be with his family at this incredibly difficult time."
After the chilling words from Mrs Baines the neighbour called the police.
When police officers arrived at the scene, they found Mr Baines in excruciating pain and whimpering in bed with the skin on his right arm and hand peeling off.
Michael was taken to hospital and remained in the burns unit for two weeks in a stable condition before he deteriorated and passed away.
Following the incident Smith was initially charged with grievous bodily harm – shortly after the death of her husband she was charged with murder.
Yesterday, on Tuesday, June, 15, a jury found her guilty of murder following a five-day trial at Chester Crown Court.
She will be sentenced on Friday 9 July.
