A 43-year-old father of three, Edward Herbert set one of his children on fire and doused another in petrol then told a neighbour who heard the commotion that he torched his 3 year old daughter because she “was too beautiful”. Herbert poured petrol over his three-year-old in front of his partner after spending the day boozing and smoking cannabis then set the little girl on fire and tipped petrol over his seven-year-old daughter, according to Perth Now.
Before the attack, Herbret had reportedly been heavily smoking cannabis at their home in Perth, Australia.
Before the attack, Herbret had reportedly been heavily smoking cannabis at their home in Perth, Australia.
He then allegedly told his partner that “the werewolf is coming at 12:00pm”. The court heard how nearing midnight he said “that’s it b****, I am going to kill you”, before he fetched a jerry can of petrol and entered his daughters’ room.
He then poured petrol over the younger child and set her alight before dousing the older child without lighting her up.
His partner tendered a statement to the court which said Herbert had been “getting angry all the time” and had “doubled his cannabis use” before the terrible incident. She said he had smoked cannabis throughout the day in question and consumed alcohol before he began to get angry that evening.
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