Dramatic moment Reservoir Dogs-obsessed ex is arrested for murder after pouring petrol on woman and setting her on fire | The Sun
CHILLING bodycam footage reveals the moment a Reservoir Dogs-obsessed killer is arrested for murder.
Sadistic thug Steven Craig, 58, doused his ex Jacqueline Kirk in petrol and set her alight 21 years ago.
Medics said her death in 2019 was a "significant" result of injuries he inflicted on her during the 1988 attack.
Eerie bodycam footage shows shocked Craig being told by cops he's being arrested for murder.
He is seen crouching by a wall and rolling a cigarette as an officer tells him Jacqueline has died of the injuries he caused.
Craig at first appears shocked, but quickly turns stone-faced as he asks: "So she died from her injuries. That makes me responsible for murder?"
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The video was released after a jury convicted Craig of murder at Bristol Crown Court.
During the 1988 attack, Craig soaked Jacqueline in petrol and set her alight in imitation of the torture scene in Quentin Tarantino's 1991 movie.
She miraculously survived after suffering 35 per cent burns, undergoing 14 operations and spending nearly nine months in hospital.
During his initial trial for grievous bodily harm with intent in 2000, Jacqueline revealed Craig had "fantasised" about the torture method.
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He was convicted and jailed over the attack.
Years later – following her death in 2019 – Craig was arrested and charged with her murder.
A trial heardJacqueline died as a result of health complications that were "more than minimally" caused by his actions.
Prosecutor Richard Smith QC told the jury injuries inflicted during the attack were a "significant" cause of her subsequent death in August 2019.
The court heard the burns and scarring on her body meant that when her intestines swelled the rest of body could not adequately expand.
This caused her diaphragm to rupture and she died at the age of 62.
HORROR INJURIES
And had it not been for the scarring and burns she suffered as a result of the attack, Mr Smith argued that doctors would have operated on her to repair the rupture and saved her life.
Speaking after the case, Jacqueline's daughter, Sonna said: "She found it very hard because she couldn't get people to understand what she was saying because the tracheostomy made it very hard for her voice to be heard.
"But she still made a big point of making her voice heard as much as she could.
"She survived and she wasn't meant to survive.
"And then she wasn't meant to recover and when we didn't think she was ever going to come out of the coma they put her in, we just assumed that was going to be the last days of her life.
"But day by day went and after a month, they brought her out of the coma and she had to face god knows how many challenges and how many operations and the fact she had no voice and she was really weak and she was confined to this room in hospital.
"But she kept on going and she was determined to be herself again."
Several medical experts were introduced during the trial to examine the role the original attack had on her subsequent death.
These included medical staff at the Royal United Hospital in Bath where she was treated.
Dr Jonathan Price, told the court she was too "frail" to be operated on after her condition deteriorated.
Prosecuting, Richard Smith KC told the court Ms Kirk died after a "swelling of her intestines."
She found it very hard because she couldn't get people to understand what she was saying because the tracheostomy made it very hard for her voice to be heard.
He told the jury in the eyes of the law Craig's actions should constitute murder.
The prosecutor added: "It was in 2019 – 21 years after that petrol attack that Jacqueline Kirk became ill and was rushed into hospital.
"Jacqueline Kirk's intestines and bowel area grossly filled with air and gas to such an extent her stomach became swollen.
"It was bulging tightly and as a result she was obviously in a dangerous situation and constant discomfort.
"Her chest and abdomen were stiff and constricted.
"For that reason the ability of her chest and the abdomen to swell to accommodate the intestines within, were restricted."
Because of the background of her frailty, doctors decided it was not right or fair to operate so she was put on palliative care and died shortly afterwards.
Mr Smith added: "The prosecution say, Jacqueline's death all those years later was caused, in part at least, as a result of the injuries inflicted upon her all those years ago when she was so badly burnt.
"For that reason, this defendant is properly charged, we say, with murder."
The court heard that at the time of the petrol attack they had been a couple for around three to four years.
During Craig's previous trial in 2000, Jacqueline had told the jury Craig had fantasised about the scene from Reservoir Dogs where a torturer tapes a policeman to a chair, douses him in petrol, cuts off his ear, and dances to the song Stuck in the Middle with You.
She told the jury: "I only saw the film with him once, but… he was always telling me about this bloke dancing and singing as he is torturing somebody.
"He thought that he was real cool."
Recalling the attack, the mother-of-two told the court: "Steve told me to pass him a bottle full of petrol and he told me to put my head down. I pushed it down as far as I could, then he poured the petrol over me.
"I could feel it going all down my face and neck. I was just thinking I was going to get battered."
She was then given a cigarette and told it may be her last. He then told her: "See how calm your nerves are."
Ms Kirk added: "I took the cigarette and he gave me a light. I just saw a blue flame flash past. I can remember Steve walking away about three paces.
"I started to feel my arms burning. I turned around and I said 'Help me'.
"He told me to roll. I rolled over and I thought it had gone out, but then whoosh, it went up again. I could not get anything out of my mouth other than 'Help me'.
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"Steve told me to roll again… the next thing I remember is waking up in intensive care."
Craig will be sentenced at a later date.
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