24-year-old sentenced after setting friend on fire because of his five-word misogynistic comment

Corbie Jean Walpole, the 24-year-old woman who set fire to one of her friends, has been sentenced to years behind bars after pleading guilty to one charge of burning or maiming by using corrosive fluid. The brutal assault rocked New South Wales in Australia last year, with the victim left unable to go out into the sun.

What happened between Corbie Jean Walpole and Jake Loader?

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On January 7 last year, Corbie Jean Walpole, Jake Loader, and some friends had been drinking for what ABC News reported as at least 12 hours. It’s believed they drank somewhere between 23 and 35 alcoholic drinks at the time, with cocaine also being used at the garden party.

Corbie and Jake had been friends for nearly a decade, and during the night of hard partying, they were reportedly antagonising each other, the court heard. Jake told her to “get back in the kitchen and not to drink with the boys,” with the New York Post also reporting that he said “she should stay in the kitchen making scones.” Corbie proceeded to drench him in a gallon of gasoline, threateningly holding a lighter as Jake allegedly said, “Go on, do it.”

She then proceeded to set him alight, melting his shirt to his body as onlookers attempted to douse the flames. People tried to put the fire out using a dog bed before throwing him in the pool.

“What the f*ck have I done?” Corbie allegedly said, “He told me to do it.”

He sustained horrific injuries

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Following the savage attack, which saw Jake’s melted shirt welded to his body, he was rushed to the hospital, where doctors discovered some of his sweat glands had been burned off. Ultimately, he sustained third-degree burns to 55 per cent of his body and was put into a coma for eight days. He also underwent 10 operations and spent 74 days in the burn unit during his recovery.

Now, a year after the awful attack, he is unable to go out into the sun because of extensive epidermal damage.

She pleaded not guilty during the trial and showed remorse

During the New South Wales trial at Albury District Court, Corbie Jean Walpole recalled how she felt “overwhelmed” by his antagonistic behaviour throughout the night before his misogynistic comment tipped her over the edge. She also claimed to be severely depressed and abusing alcohol and drugs after a messy breakup in 2022.

“To this day I feel horrible, remorseful, guilty for what I have done to Jake, not only Jake but his family, his loved ones, his mutual friends … anyone who has been impacted in this entire case,” she told the court. “I find it very hard to believe the injuries that were caused were from my doing. I would do anything to go back in time.”

Judge Jennifer English found it difficult to accept that Corbie’s depression was a factor in the attack, instead calling it an “unprovoked and particularly violent” assault.

“This is a tragic case, in so many ways, for the victim and his family and the offender and her family: two young lives destroyed,” she added.

Corbie Jean Walpole will now spend seven and a half years behind bars, being eligible for parole in 2029.

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