A heartless man has been caged by the court after he was found guilty of pouring petrol and burning his girlfriend.

A father, who poured petrol over his girlfriend then set her on fire, has been jailed for eight years, Dailymail reports.

According to the report, Lee Ferguson, 32, from Wallsend in North Tyneside, attacked Jade Jordan, who suffered burns to 13 per cent of her body and required surgery and skin grafts.

The shocking incident was caught on CCTV camera and took place in the early hours of February 19, shows Miss Jordan’s torso and thighs ignite into a burst of yellow and orange.

She can been seen lying on the ground in the street, screaming in agony, with her clothes burnt off, in further video from a police officer’s bodycam.  The victim spent three weeks in hospital after the attack, suffered ‘deep’ burns to 13 per cent of her body  and needed surgery and skin grafts.

She will be scarred for life around her stomach, abdomen and legs. Ferguson admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent at Newcastle Crown Court. He sobbed in the dock as the footage of his attack and his aftermath was played to the court.

The court heard the couple, who had been together for 12 years and have two children, have stayed together after the attack. Witnesses from a nearby pub had heard Miss Jordan ‘shouting and then screaming’ in the early hours and saw the flames.

Ferguson, who stamped out the blaze and covered his victim in a coat to try and stop the flames, was heard saying ‘I’m going to jail for a long time for this’.

Prosecutor Paul Rowland told the court Miss Jordan did not make a statement about why or how she was attacked.

After jailing him for eight years, Judge Robert Adams told Ferguson: ‘It seems to me the horror of what you had done and the injury inflicted became clear to you soon after you committed this offence.
‘It is hard to imagine how painful those burns must have been.

‘The pain and suffering at the time, which your offending caused, must have been extreme.

‘There was extensive and deep burning.’

The judge said the background to Ferguson’s offending was his drinking vodka, arguments, smoking cannabis and him being jealous.