A woman is accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend as she laughed and said 'if I can't have you no one can' while she covered him in sulphuric acid.
Berlinah Wallace is accused of throwing the corrosive substance in Mark's face and it then covered most of his body.
The 29-year-old lost his leg, his left eye, and most of the sight in his right eye following the sulphuric acid attack, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Mark, a civil engineer, was so badly injured he wanted to end his own life.
Adam Vaitlingam QC, prosecuting, said: "The defendant had bought a bottle of sulphuric acid, which she bought online from Amazon.
"At around 3am, as Mark was sleeping in bed, she poured the acid into a glass.
"She then went into the bedroom, and woke him up. She laughed and said 'if I can't have you no-one will' and threw the glass of sulphuric acid into his face.
"It covered his face and parts of his upper body and dripped onto his lower body as he moved.
"Covered in burning acid, Mark ran out into the street in his boxer shorts, screaming for help."
The court heard the couple had a five-year-relationship and lived together but Mark began seeing another woman in August 2015.
Mark, a Dutch national, told colleagues that Wallace had been violent towards him, and "seemed genuinely scared."
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