Man guilty of murder over ex-partner’s death 21 years after Somerset attack

Steven Craig served prison time for 1998 attack on Jacqueline Kirk and was re-arrested after her death in 2019

A man has been convicted of murdering his ex-partner, who died 21 years after he doused her with petrol and set her on fire.

Steven Craig, now 58, inflicted horrendous injuries on Jacqueline Kirk in a car park in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, in April 1998. Kirk had burns to 35% of her body, required a tracheotomy and operations including skin grafts, and was in hospital for nine months.