Mother sets fire to her daughter's gloating rapist

[Geriatrix]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ts-fire-to-her-daughters-gloating-rapist.html

By Peter Upton in Alicante
Last Updated: 11:48PM BST 25 Jun 2005

A Spanish mother has taken revenge on the man who raped her 13-year-old daughter at knifepoint by dousing him in petrol and setting him alight. He died of his injuries in hospital on Friday.

Antonio Cosme Velasco Soriano, 69, had been sent to jail for nine years in 1998, but was let out on a three-day pass and returned to his home town of Benejúzar, 30 miles south of Alicante, on the Costa Blanca.

While there, he passed his victim's mother in the street and allegedly taunted her about the attack. He is said to have called out "How's your daughter?", before heading into a crowded bar.

Shortly after, the woman walked into the bar, poured a bottle of petrol over Soriano and lit a match. She watched as the flames engulfed him, before walking out.

The woman fled to Alicante, where she was arrested the same evening. When she appeared in court the next day in the town of Orihuela, she was cheered and clapped by a crowd, who shouted "Bravo!" and "Well done!"

A judge ordered her to be held in prison and undergo psychiatric tests, provoking anger from friends and neighbours, who have set up a petition calling for her release.

Soriano suffered 60 per cent burns in the attack on June 13 and was airlifted to a specialist unit. He survived for 11 days before succumbing to his injuries.

It is understood that the woman, who cannot be named because of laws safeguarding the identity of rape victims, claims to have no recollection of the attack which took place in the Bar Mary, just 300 yards from the family home.

As decorators painted over the blackened walls of his bar last week, Antonio Ferrendez Lopez told how Soriano had walked in at lunchtime.

"The place was packed with people eating. I was sitting at a table and Soriano was standing at the bar very close to me when the woman walked in," he said. "She didn't acknowledge anyone but walked up to Soriano, who was drinking a coffee, put her hand on his shoulder and turned him round to face her.

"Then she pulled the bottle she was carrying from under her arm and began to tip it over him. At first I didn't realise what was happening, but then I smelt the petrol. I jumped up and tried to grab her, but when she struck a match I got clear.

"The petrol was in a pool around Soriano, and she threw the match into it. It ignited with a whoosh, and he screamed and staggered about covered in flames. As people rushed outside to escape the flames, she just looked at him, then turned and walked away."

Customers helped Mr Lopez put out the fire with extinguishers and doused Soriano with water until paramedics arrived.

Soriano's attack on the woman's teenage daughter took place in 1998. The girl was going to buy a loaf of bread when Soriano snatched her from the street, threatened her with a knife and raped her. Her mother is said to have suffered mental illness ever since.

Soriano was convicted of the rape and ordered to serve 13 years in jail. The sentence was later reduced to nine years on appeal.

The woman's lawyer, Joaquín Galant, told The Sunday Telegraph last night: "The family has suffered a double tragedy. First the attack on their daughter and now this. Both the father and his daughter would like to express their sadness at the death of Soriano."

Earlier, Mr Galant said that the woman did not deserve to be kept in prison. "For seven years she has been deeply affected by what was done to her daughter," he said. "This man, fresh from prison and asking how her daughter was, might be considered to have provoked her."

 

[killadoob]

It sucks he died, would have been better if he lived the rest of his life with 60% burns to his body and suffered but o well.

Free her i say, he deserved it.

 

[Lycanthrope]

I agree with the crowd - well done! That sick bastard deserved it! I can't think of a better way for someone like that to go.

 

[LazyLion]

She will be found not guilty by reason of insanity... the insanity that this pig caused that family to go through. I'm glad he is dead. He deserved it. His first crime was the rape for which he got 13 years. His second crime was to taunt the mother, for which he got the death sentence. So be it. Justice is served.

Men keep your d1cks in your pants and never touch a woman in anger or abuse. If I find out you hurt a woman I'll kill you myself.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Men keep your d1cks in your pants and never touch a woman in anger or abuse. If I find out you hurt a woman I'll kill you myself.

/me doesn't care if it's male or female - rape is rape and should be dealt with by a death sentence

 

[Telkomisaloser]

Serves him right....

Respect to that mother!!!

 

[Slaine73]

Good for her, this should happen to all rapists, then there may be less rapes.

 

[Telkomisaloser]

Soriano suffered 60 per cent burns in the attack on June 13 and was airlifted to a specialist unit. He survived for 11 days before succumbing to his injuries.

So he did suffer!!!! Bawahahaaaa!!!

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Bravo to the mom ........ karma got him didn't it, bastid

 

[TheHiveMind]

Wow, he asked for it, she gave it to him.

 

[cerebus]

It is very difficult to plead insanity. In actuality it is one of the rarest and least successful legal bids. She will probably go to prison, which is debatably fair enough, since that was the price she paid for being able to taste revenge.

 

[Lycanthrope]

It is very difficult to plead insanity. In actuality it is one of the rarest and least successful legal bids. She will probably go to prison, which is debatably fair enough, since that was the price she paid for being able to taste revenge.

I think I can understand how she felt. Prison would be worth it for something like that.

 

[Palmela]

Free her i say, he deserved it.

Agree

 

[shadowfox]

It is very difficult to plead insanity. In actuality it is one of the rarest and least successful legal bids. She will probably go to prison, which is debatably fair enough, since that was the price she paid for being able to taste revenge.

Fair enough - but the article does mention mental illness. Whether it's true or not remains to be proven.

But the guy got what he asked for by taunting her - meaning he showed no regret - meaning by extension that prison sentences don't help some people.

A fair argument for the death sentence ...

 

[TheHiveMind]

It is very difficult to plead insanity. In actuality it is one of the rarest and least successful legal bids. She will probably go to prison, which is debatably fair enough, since that was the price she paid for being able to taste revenge.

Temporary insanity in this situation? More than plausible. But from what others are saying, it seems like they are saying she has had mental illness because of the rape of her daughter for quite some time.

 

[Chris_H]

I agree with the crowd - well done! That sick bastard deserved it! I can't think of a better way for someone like that to go.

I can think of a better way... clamp his genitals in a vice grip, weld the grip shut, pour petrol over the entire room except the rapist and the path to the exit, put a knive down on the table and light the place on fire...

 

[Slootvreter]

Bravo to the mom ........ karma got him didn't it, bastid

No it wasn't karma, is was the angry mother

 

[Geriatrix]

No it wasn't karma, is was the angry mother

Whats the differance?

 

[Slootvreter]

Whats the differance?

...unless her name was Karma!

 

[BinaryJack]

His suffering was 11 days, her daughters will be forever!