Cruel pensioner held child’s hand over stove flame

A pensioner who held youngsters’ hands over a stove flame and stuffed lit paper down a boy’s pyjamas is behind bars today (mon). Valerie Stannard, 73, forced soap down a boy’s throat until he nearly choked while her brutal husband Roy, 74, hit the youngster ‘as if he was punching a man’. The children were also hit with a bamboo cane or belt and forced to do household chores. The victims were regularly locked in a basement at the Stannards’…