Penis burning wife Rajini Narayan found guilty of manslaughter
- By Sean Fewster, Court Reporter
- From: AdelaideNow
- October 13, 2010 4:43PM
Penis-burning wife guilty of manslaughter
Penis-burning wife guilty of manslaughter
Rajini Narayan leaves the Supreme Court. Picture: Greg Higgs
Source: AdelaideNow
- Jury finds woman not guilty of murder
- But guilty of husband's manslaughter
- Had intended to "burn the tip of his penis"
A DEVOTED wife who fatally set her husband alight while trying to burn a mark on his penis has been acquitted of murder. After deliberating for nine hours over two days, a Supreme Court jury today found Rajini Narayan not guilty, by majority verdict, of murder.
They instead ruled her crime - throwing petrol and a lit candle onto the back of her husband, Satish - was manslaughter.
Narayan - who has long maintained she had no intention to kill Satish - showed little reaction to the verdict.
Her lawyers told the court she had offered, prior to trial, to plead guilty to manslaughter.
Satish died 20 days after his wife confronted him about the suspected affair in their Unley home in December 2008.
Prosecutors alleged Narayan threw petrol and a candle on her husband's back, setting him and the house alight.