Edward Herbert, 43, was accused of pouring petrol over his three-year-old in front of his partner (Picture: Facebook)

A father has been found guilty of setting his three-year-old daughter on fire because she was ‘too beautiful’ before dousing her autistic sister in petrol.

Edward John Herbert, 43, admitted his intention to kill after a day of drinking and smoking cannabis at their home in Perth but had denied the charges he faced claiming he was of unsound mind.

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But he was found guilty at the Western Australia Supreme Court today and will be sentenced next month pending a psychiatric report.

Herbert’s younger daughter was left with burns to her face and upper body and required surgery and laser scar management following the attack last August.




The court heard how around midnight, Herbert told his wife ‘the werewolf is coming at 12pm’ and ‘that’s it b****, I am going to kill you’ before getting petrol and entering his daughter’s room.

He told his neighbour he did it because she ‘was too beautiful’ (Picture: Facebook)

He then poured petrol over the young child and set her alight before dousing the older child in petrol.

According to reports, the family’s neighbour Daniel McMillan arrived shortly after and found Mr Herbert in the kitchen drinking beer.

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Herbert then told Mr McMillan that they were his kids so he could do whatever he wanted and that his young daughter was too beautiful and that is why he burnt her.

Stephanie Bochorsky, an off-duty police officer who lived in a neighbouring property, also told the trial how she she described seeing the young girl in her cot with her ‘whole head on fire’, reports the Australian Press Association.

She covered the girl with the blanket and saw the father pouring petrol over the other child in her bed.

Herbert admits burning his child but claims he was insane at the time and so not guilty. (Picture: Facebook)

She pulled the older girl out of bed before running.

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