Brae Taylor Lewis resentenced after pleading guilty to setting girlfriend alight
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Brae Lewis and Kyeesah Finemore before the attack.
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A man who permanently disfigured his teenage girlfriend after dousing her with petrol and setting her alight has been resentenced to a lesser nine years and six months behind bars after a successful appeal.
Brae Taylor Lewis, from Logan south of Brisbane, admitted to attacking Kyesha Finemore, then 17, during a violent argument over a mobile phone outside their Marsden home in May 2016.
Lewis, who was also 17 at the time, splashed Ms Finemore with fuel from a beer bottle, before flicking his lighter which ignited the fumes.
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Subscriber only A woman doused in petrol and set on fire by a Queensland man has revealed she still struggles with day-to-day things like brushing hair and lighting gas stoves, more than four years after the heinous attack. The woman held back tears at Brisbane District Court on Wednesday as she revealed how she still has nightmares from Brae Taylor Lewis s vicious attack and has to be cautious about her skin coming into contact with basic chemicals like detergents and hand soap. Lewis, now 22, is being resentenced on one count of malicious act with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after successfully appealing his previous conviction and 11-year jail term handed down in 2018.
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Subscriber only A woman doused in petrol and set on fire by a Queensland man has revealed she still struggles with day-to-day things like brushing hair and lighting gas stoves, more than four years after the heinous attack. The woman held back tears at Brisbane District Court on Wednesday as she revealed how she still has nightmares from Brae Taylor Lewis s vicious attack and has to be cautious about her skin coming into contact with basic chemicals like detergents and hand soap. Lewis, now 22, is being resentenced on one count of malicious act with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after successfully appealing his previous conviction and 11-year jail term handed down in 2018.
A Logan personal trainer at popular gym chain F45 Training livestreamed a shocking assault on his ex-wife and her new squeeze after he let himself into the former marital home and rained blows on the hapless man, breaking his nose. Beenleigh man Tamafaiga Nick Kepu, 27, a personal trainer at F45 Browns Plains, amateur MMA fighter and former first-grade centre for Souths Sunnybank Rugby League Football Club, pleaded guilty in Beenleigh District Court on Tuesday to six offences. Beenleigh man Tamafaiga Nick Kepu, 27, a personal trainer at F45 Training Browns Plains. Picture: Facebook They included burglary with actual violence, assault occasioning bodily harm, common assault and three counts of wilful damage.
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