"Your honor, I accidentally beat my wife with a hammer. Then I accidentally doused her with gasoline.... and then I accidentally tossed a lit candle at her"

Gregg Burrage, WFTS

TAMPA, Fla. — A jury found Christopher Hanney guilty Thursday of beating his wife with a hammer and setting her on fire. Hanney had claimed that she and another man attacked him. 

Prosecutors said that Hanney and his wife, Audrey Mabrey, were in the process of divorcing in November of 1999 when he attacked her in their Apollo Beach house. They said he grabbed Mabrey, took her to the garage, beat her with a hammer, doused her with gasoline and then tossed a lit candle at her. She was set on fire. 

Tampa-area man Christopher Hanney was found guilty of grabbing his wife,

With the help of a neighbor, she was able to extinguish the fire, but suffered burns to 80 percent of her body.

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