The father of a woman who had boiling water with sugar poured on her leg by her ex-boyfriend said he feels let down by the legal system after a court imposed a two-and-a-half-year sentence for the crime.

A woman who had boiling water with sugar poured over her leg said after her ex-boyfriend was jailed yesterday that women should get out of relationships with possessive and violent men.

A pregnant woman had a kettle of boiling water and sugar poured over her leg by her boyfriend, who also threatened that he would kill her and bury her in the woods if she cheated on him, she claimed yesterday.