The judge rejected Norbert Budai's claim he didn't mean to hurt Henrietta Viski when he doused her with gas and set her ablaze

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Norbert Budai knew exactly what he was doing when he doused his ex-wife with gasoline and set her ablaze – of course he did.

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So, despite his self-serving testimony that he never meant to hurt Henrietta Viski, his common-law wife of 19 years and mother of his three children, and that he was high on vodka and fentanyl, Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly didn’t believe any of it and convicted him of first-degree murder on Friday.

“I am satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Budai knew what he was doing, that he planned to kill Ms. Viski by dousing her with gasoline and lighting her on fire, that he deliberated on that plan and that he carried it out in a horrific manner,” she told him as........

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