Birmingham man jailed for trying to murder his wife by pouring hot oil on her head
He has been sentenced to 26 years
A man who tried to murder his wife by pouring hot oil on her head and striking her with a frying pan after asking her to make him an omelette has been jailed.
Raju Mollah, 50, and his wife had argued days before he stamped on her, kicked her and pushed a mop into her face on January 12 last year, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
Mollah’s wife, who was found by police lying in a pool of oil, suffered severe burns, a minor bleed to the brain, missing teeth, wounds to her face and head, and singed hair.
The CPS said a paramedic who attended the scene said she could feel radiating heat from the hot oil on the floor.
Mollah, from Birmingham, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent but denied attempting to murder his wife.
A jury convicted him after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court in August last year and he was sentenced to 26 years in prison on Friday, the CPS said.
An indefinite restraining order was also imposed.
On the day of the attack, Mollah came home from work and told his wife to make him an omelette, before he put oil in a frying pan and waited for it to heat up.
When she turned away to wash a utensil, Mollah grabbed her hair and poured the hot oil over her face before hitting her repeatedly with the pan and a metal frame from the gas cooker.
Mollah suggested to police at the scene that his wife had fallen in an accident but when interviewed he claimed he was defending himself.
Tejinder Sandhu, a Senior Crown Prosecutor for CPS West Midlands, said: “This was a vicious and sustained attack that left the victim with severe, life-changing injuries.
“Raju Mollah lied to minimise what he had done by claiming self-defence but the evidence proved he deliberately attacked his wife with the intention of killing her.
“There is no excuse for such violence and we will continue to robustly prosecute those who commit such atrocious crimes as fully as the law allows.”