15 years for the boyfriend who scalded lover

Islington

A horrifically burnt woman was hidden from police under a duvet by her boyfriend after he threw a kettle of boiling water over her and battered her unconscious, a court heard Fiston Onyumbe, 32, threatened to brand Sarah Hounslow, 21, with a hot iron or throw scalding water mixed with sugar over her during the attack at his cousin’s home in Tottenham, north London. She was so terrified she pushed herself out of a first-storey window backwards to escape, but Onyumbe…

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