Chilling words of musician, 40, as he poured boiling water over his cheating girlfriend’s head
Court hears Stephen Harris screamed 'F***** have that!' before pouring boiling hot water over his lover
A MUSICIAN in a jealous rage chucked boiling water over his screaming lover in revenge for her fling with another man.
Stephen Harris, 40, hissed 'No-one is going to look at you ever again, are they?' as he inflicted horrific burns on his girlfriend's groin, private parts, stomach, thighs and other parts of her body with the scalding water from a kitchen kettle.
A judge has warned Harris, of Marine Terrace, Folkstone, Kent, that he faces a long jail sentence after he was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
He was described in court as a musician, and his lover, who it was said used to sing with him in his performances, needed extensive treatment at the East Grinstead Specialist Burns Unit after the appalling attack in June this year.
She told Canterbury Crown Court how she had been in bed on June 2 when Harris returned from getting some milk for a cup of tea.
She heard him making himself a drink after filling up the kettle in the kitchen.
All the while he was calling her names about her sexual relationship with another man.
"He said I was a slut and was beyond anyone's help" she said.
He had yelled that her ex-lover was 'going to f****** get it. He is really going to get hurt when I see him'.
Harris strode into the bedroom holding a red kettle and poured scalding water over her, shouting 'F***** have that! No-one is going to look at you now, are they?'
She felt excruciating pain to her body and said that on a scale of one to ten, it was ten.
"I was screaming. I said 'Babe, babe, what did you do that for?'.
"As I sat in the bedroom in agony I shouted 'Why did you do that? Help me..help me!'
"He told me to get into the shower but I ran out of the flat."
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She staggered in agony to nearby Gillespie's pub in Harbour Way, begging a man there to call for an ambulance.
Paramedics arrived and gave her morphine for the pain before she was taken to Ashford's William Harvey Hospital.
Prosecutor Simon Taylor said the phrase about 'no-one will look at you now' showed Harris meant to cause her 'really serious harm' when he threw the boiling water over her.
"That indicated he wanted to change his partner's appearance...and for the worst."
The couple had been in an on-off relationship for three years, said Mr Taylor.
"It is a relationship that could properly be described as volatile and in the past she had made reports to the police of being assaulted."
Harris, who claimed he was on the verge of landing sponsors for his music career, claimed he hadn't boiled any water.
He said the injuries had been caused by the woman herself but after retiring for seven and a half hours, the jury found him guilty by a 10-2 majority.
Sentence was adjourned for a new report on the woman's injuries and he was remanded in custody.
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