Overview

• Jordan Spencer, 34, was sentenced in the Victorian Supreme Court after pleading guilty to intentionally causing serious injury in circumstances of gross violence.
• She must serve a non-parole period of nine years, with first parole eligibility in January 2033 and 617 days time served credited.
• Justice Andrew Tinney said Spencer acted out of anger and described the use of fire with an accelerant as shocking and heartless, noting he would have imposed 16 years without the guilty plea.
• Court evidence showed Spencer threw a bowl of petrol and used a lighter, leaving Carpio alight for about 64 seconds before bystanders extinguished the flames.
• Carpio suffered burns to 30% of her body with life‑endangering injuries and ongoing psychological and respiratory harm, while police later found petrol and a lighter in Spencer’s home and recordings captured her blaming her partner after a dispute over an e‑scooter he had taken.