Man Sentenced for Boiling Oil Attack on Wife

0:00On April 24th, a 49-year-old Birmingham man named Raju Mola just got slammed with a 26-year prison sentence for trying to murder his wife right in their family home. He poured boiling hot oil over her face and head, then bashed her with a frying pan and a metal cooker frame before stomping and kicking her while she was down. This nightmare kicked off on January 12th, 2025, after the couple had been arguing over a property for days. Mola came home from work, told his wife who was cooking in the kitchen to whip up an omelet, loaded a pan with extra oil to heat it up, and attacked the second she turned away. The victim suffered horrific burns across her face, neck, arms, and hands with skin peeling off and some wounds cutting deep to the bone. She had a minor brain bleed, lost teeth, a swollen eye, and cuts everywhere, lying in a pool of oil and blood when paramedics arrived, still feeling. Mola lied to police at first, calling it an accident or claiming self-defense, but

1:01he only admitted to causing serious harm, not the murder attempt. A jury convicted him after an August trial, and the judge added an indefinite restraining order on top of the sentence. Prosecutors hailed it as a brutal, sustained assault, leaving her with lifelong scars, and they praised her bravery for testifying. But just as served, her road to recovery can hopefully move forward now.