Man who burnt his wife alive gets at least 27 years' jail, but not life – as victim was no stranger
- Written by Lisa Featherstone, Associate Professor in Australian History and the History of Sexuality, The University of Queensland
Domestic killings have long been treated as somehow less serious than when random strangers are killed.Shutterstock
Last week in the New South Wales Supreme Court, Justice David Davies sentenced a 45-year-old man found guilty of murdering his wife to a maximum of 36 years with a minimum non-parole period of 27 years. He had burned her alive in the...