An Adelaide court says a father of three, who was critically burnt during a home fire, was set alight by his wife as he slept.
It is alleged that she threw a cup of methylated spirits on her husband’s genitals and then set him on fire with a candle.
When the husband awoke, he knocked over the cup of spirits and the fire quickly spread.
The couple’s three children were also in the house, but escaped unharmed.
The man is unlikely to survive.
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