Woman jailed for dousing friend in petrol, set him alight after sexist remark

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'A woman who doused a “lifelong friend” in petrol and set him alight after being angered by his misogynistic comments has just been sentenced to seven-and-a-half-years in prison.

Corbie Jean Walpole, 25, pleaded guilty in December to one charge of burning or maiming by using corrosive fluid and had hoped to receive a non-custodial sentence.

However, she was told she would spend a minimum four-and-a-half-years behind bars after a judge denied her plea for mercy, according to ABC.

Judge Jennifer English said she rejected the claim that Walpole was “provoked” when she attacked her friend, Jake Loader, on a night out in January last year.

“It is never easy to send a young person, particularly a young woman, to jail,” Judge English told the NSW District Court in Albury, shortly before 10am on Thursday.'