http://web.mid-day.com/news/world/2005/june/112450.htm
London: Taking the law in her own hands, a Spanish mother set afire
a man who raped her teenaged daughter and allegedly taunted her
about the assault, a report here said today.
The rapist Antonio Cosme Velasco Soriano, who later succumbed to
injuries, had been sent to jail for nine years in 1998, but was let
out on a three-day pass and returned to his home town of Benejuzar,
50 km south of Alicante, on the Costa Blanca.
While there, he passed his victim's mother in the street and
allegedly taunted her about the attack. He is said to have called
out: "How's your daughter?" before heading into a crowded bar, The
Sunday Telegraph reported today.
Shortly after, the woman walked into the bar, poured a bottle of
petrol over Soriano and lit a match. She watched as the flames
engulfed him, before walking out.
The woman fled to Alicante, where she was arrested the same
evening. When she appeared in court the next day in the town of
Orihuela, she was cheered and clapped by a crowd, who shouted
"Bravo!" and "Well done!" the newspaper reported.
A judge ordered her to be held in prison and undergo psychiatric
tests, provoking anger from friends and neighbours, who have set up
a petition calling for her release.
Soriano suffered 60 per cent burns in the attack on June 13 and
later succumbed to injuries
