HALSTEAD BOILING WATER BURGLARY DUO JAILED FOR LIFE
A married couple’s lives have been devastated by a brutal incident, leading to the imprisonment of two men for life.The men were convicted of torturing a husband and wife inside their residence in a rural village in Kent.
Janice and John Buswell endured a two-hour nightmare during which they were subjected to extreme violence, including having boiling water poured over them until they surrendered £50,000 from their family enterprise in Halstead, near Sevenoaks.
The suspects were apprehended in a dramatic police operation at Heathrow airport as they were returning from an overseas shopping trip.
From Chelmsford Crown Court, Tony Green reported that Adams and Wallace forced their way into the elderly couple’s home, inflicting severe torture.
The men poured two kettles of boiling water over the woman’s head and body, and another kettle over her husband, causing unimaginable suffering.
