The former husband of the woman who set fire to herself on a train also committed suicide by torching himself four years ago, it has been claimed.Rachel James incinerated herself on a train on Monday, exactly 14 years on from knifing her six-year-old son Perry to death in a psychotic episode.
She was sectioned after the attack and began a relationship with fellow patient Terone McCalla, who torched himself four years ago, according to the Daily Mirror.
The pair's marriage last 'only a few weeks' and McCalla was said to be abusive towards Miss James.
It was also claimed that Miss James had attempted suicide three times before.
Retired British Airways engineer Keith Cluskey, 65, a close friend of Rachel James, told the Mirror: 'Terone was sectioned and set himself alight in the mental hospital but I don't think what Rachel did was linked to that.
'I think she must have done research on the internet about how to do it rather than take it from Terone.
'He was a crackhead and beat her up. He beat her up when she was pregnant.'
The couple reportedly met at St Bernard's Hospital in Ealing, West London, and had two children, both of whom were taken into care.
She was eventually released, but Miss James never overcame her guilt. And on Monday, the 14th anniversary of Perry’s death, she killed herself by igniting a can of inflammable gas in the lavatory of a London-bound train in Bedfordshire. Read More
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