Disabled woman with lighter who doused herself in petrol at garage spared prison

A disabled woman who doused herself in petrol and threatened to set herself on fire at a service station in frustration that a hospital had no beds free to treat her has been spared jail.

Maria Whitefield, 30, drove up to a pump in her wheelchair, poured petrol over herself while clutching a lighter and told a terrified attendant she would make the garage go "boom".