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Mark See, 34, has denied killing his mother, Sandra See, 63, but a jury found him guilty after four days of deliberations.
He is scheduled to be sentenced at a later date, the Manchester Evening News reported.
Manchester Crown Court heard that the fatal fire broke out in the early hours of July 13, at the house they shared on Darras Road in Gorton.
See, who had been drinking whiskey and coke all night, grabbed a plastic milk bottle filled with gasoline after rowing with his mother.
Prosecutors said he threw gasoline on her before starting a fire after a “raging and drunken argument.”
Mark see Mother Death
See and his girlfriend Natalie Hughes were able to escape, but Sandra See was killed.After leaving the house, See left in her work truck.
“She’s dead, she’s dead,” See was heard saying to Mrs. Hughes, her pregnant fiancée who also acted as caretaker for her mother.
“Let’s leave her, let’s go.”
Hughes stayed and called 999.See was only found some 16 hours later, in a graveyard near Manchester Airport.
Police found him lying in a fetal position, with burns on his hands and feet.
Ms See’s body was described as “incinerated”. She had to be identified by a metal plate on her leg.
Mark See, 34, lay dazed in hospital for two weeks afterwards.Mark See, 34, was found guilty of murdering his mother Sandra See.
Investigation
He heard news on the radio about a fatal house fire in Gorton, but didn’t realize the host was talking about him.
As he recovered in the burn unit, See made some disturbing comments.
He told a nurse that he had previously thought of killing his mother in a fire at his house.
See described having ‘terrible thoughts’ while he felt depressed, how he thought about hurting himself and others, mainly his mother.
Mark See’s mother, Sandra See, 63.
Sandra See’s property damage
“He has had prior and regular thoughts of killing his mother in a house fire,” the jury was told.
“He described hearing a voice encouraging him to do this.”
He would later try to explain them away as comments made as he ‘tried to make sense’ of what had happened.
An investigator on the scene after the house fire.
See told jurors the fire was an accident and denied wanting to harm his mother.
He claimed that he picked up the milk carton, which he used to store gas for a lawn mower, to scare his mother into thinking he was going to do “something stupid” to himself.
They had been arguing about Mrs Hughes’s role as carer for Mrs See, when his mother turned on him and said that she wanted her to leave her.
See said the bottle ignited when he lit a cigarette and instinctively dropped it to the ground, setting off the catastrophic fire.
He said that he tried to save his mother from him, but had to flee after the flames became too strong.
Prosecutor Francis FitzGibbon QC told the jury during the trial:
Prosecutor Francis FitzGibbon QC told the jury during the trial: “We say that once he has heard the evidence, he will be certain that Mr. See murdered his mother by deliberately setting her on fire with gasoline.”
Ver will be sentenced on February 25
“He knew what would happen and he intended for it to happen.”
See was unable to explain why he drove his work van into an area near the cargo center at Manchester airport.
He described being “traumatized and lost” after the death of his mother, whom he said he loved “more than anything.”
Ms. Justice Yip deferred sentencing until February 25.
She told See that only a life sentence can be served.
