Daily Mail
December 12, 2014
A Somalian man who doused a woman in petrol after she rejected his advances and left her to burn in a fireball has been jailed for 16 years.
Mohammed Kosar, 28, led Lithuanian Dovile Krivickaite down an alley in Forest Gate, East London, saying he want to speak to her before he threw petrol over her and set her alight.
Kosar then walked away leaving the then 23-year-old to turn into a human fireball and burn, the Old Bailey heard.
She was helped by rescuers who heard her screams and took a nearby house where they poured water over her before calling an ambulance.
Rebecca Poulet QC jailed Kosar for 32 years and said he had shown no remorse. She said: ‘This appalling attack was premeditated and in my opinion you intended to kill.’
Ms Krivickaite suffered burns to 24 per cent of her body in the attack and said her injuries had ‘changed her life forever.’
The Old Bailey previously heard Ms Krivickaite came to the UK in September 2012 and knew Kosar as ‘Rocky.’
She saw him regularly but turned him down when he asked her for sex, it was suggested.
On October 19 last year she was picked up by Kosar and a friend on Rosedale Road, Forest Gate and taken to an alley off the road.
But once she got there without warning Kosar doused her in petrol with a five-litre can and set her on fire.
She was so badly burnt the skin was falling off her body and she has had to undergo several graft operations. She spent six weeks in hospital and had to be intubated because her burns affected her ability to breathe.
Ms Krivickaite suffered severe burns to the face, neck and left side of her body, and is still badly scarred after the attack.
The Lithuanian said she constantly receives sympathy because of her appalling injuries.