Man left with severe burns after pool heater explosion says wife, her lover and lover's daughter were trying to kill him
A terminally ill father in the UK has told a jury he was engulfed in a ball of flames after his swimming pool heater exploded in an alleged plot by his wife, her lover and the lover's daughter to kill him. 53-year-old Raymond Weatherall, a father-of-seven, said he survived the attack after he was pushed into the pool by his son to put out the flames when the incident took place in his family home in June last year. The man, who was diagnosed in 2015 with brain tumor, suffered from second-degree burns to his shoulders, arms, hands, and legs from the incident.
The Sun reported that he told the court: "I was stood about four, five feet away from the boiler as I call it when there was this almighty bang, the door on it blew open and covered me with all the kindling and the remains of the lit fuel. I was ablaze in as many seconds as you could ever imagine."