Teenager killed and set alight

TWO women were facing life imprisonment yesterday for murdering a 17-year-old girl by dousing her in petrol and setting her alight after becoming embroiled in a row about a boyfriend.

Debra Carne's body was left burning in an isolated lay-by late at night near her home in Sible Hedingham, Essex, on July 28, 2002.

Tests showed she had been asphyxiated possibly as a result of a headlock - before being set alight.Kerry Bauer, now aged 21, of Braintree, Essex, was convicted of murder by a jury sitting at Chelmsford Crown Court.