Man who doused wife in petrol and set her alight jailed for minimum 18 years

“This is a significant prison sentence for a man of 61 but, given the horror of what he did to his wife, it is the least he deserves”

Thomas Rainey has been sentenced at Belfast Crown Court to a minimum of 18 years in prison for the murder of his wife. The 61-year-old of Quarry Road in Knockloughrim, County Derry, murdered Katrina in October 2021 when he threw a bucket of petrol over her and set her on fire inside a car. Picture: PSNI/PA Wire

A man who threw a bucket of petrol over his wife and set her on fire inside a car has been sentenced to a minimum of 18 years in prison.

Thomas Rainey, 61, of Quarry Road in Knockloughrim, Co Derry, had pleaded guilty to the murder of his wife, Katrina Rainey, in October 2021.