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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Sophie Halle-Richards

Chilling moment woman, 62, sets fire to flats while families slept

This is the chilling moment a woman torched her block of flats - before calmly walking away. Nora Ward, 62, set fire to the communal entrance of her housing block in Wythenshawe after a 10-year dispute with neighbours came to a head in May this year.

The nuisance neighbour was handed a suspended sentence at Manchester Crown Court for arson earlier this month, and has been allowed to continue living at her home on Leybrook Road.

CCTV images seen by the M.E.N show a person, understood to be Ward, carrying something ignited as they walk to the main front door of the apartment block.

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