Juliet Wilson Gets 3 Years in Jail for Pouring Boiling Bleach on Her Girlfriend
Juliet Wilson, of North London, has been sentenced to three years in jail for pouring boiling bleach on her then-girlfriend, Maxine Grizzle, in October 2005 after she found out Grizzle had met up with an ex-lover.
Gay.com:
The violent act produced burns on Grizzle’s face and upper body.
According to press reports, Grizzle forgave Wilson and wrote a letter to the judge in the case to be lenient on Wilson, who is a mother of two. The letter persuaded the judge to take two years off the woman’s sentence.
The two children are being cared for by Wilson’s brother.
Grizzle told the court that on Oct. 26 she was awakened by “some hot thing over me.” She went to the mirror, and it looked like her face was “coming off.” Grizzle said Wilson refused to help her, so she ran outside and got assistance from a bus driver.
Sheesh, I live in the UK and didn’t see this reported on the news over here. Scary, horrible stuff – but to put it into perspective, nobody ever said domestic violence wasn’t a gender- or sexuality-specific issue. Actually, they did… I once met a lesbian in the late 80s who said domestic violence didn’t exist in lesbian relationships. At the time, I saw it on a par with the idea that all pornography degrades women, even gay male pornography (of course, whether gay male pornography degrades men is another debatable issue entirely…!). x