A US politician is pictured smiled broadly next to his wife and a woman he allegedly had an affair with, and his mistress’ British husband flashing peace signs behind them.

Ten months after the seemingly gleeful photo was taken, the US politician, Lee Vogler, is hospitalized with 60% of his body burned.

The British man, Michael Buck-Hayes, 29, is accused of dousing Vogler with petrol and setting him on fire in his office in July, in a jealous rage over the affair with his wife, Mary, the Daily Mail reported.

Buck-Hayes, who apparently blames Vogler for breaking up his four-year marriage, appeared in court this week.

The Brit told police that ‘he set the person on fire who had an affair with his wife’, it emerged in a court in Virginia earlier this week.

An affair between Vogler and Ma

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