A paranoid schizophrenic who started a fire which forced an 83-year old great grandmother and her son to jump from an upstairs window of their home has been jailed for life.
Peggy Wright, affectionally known as the "Peggy Mitchell of her street", in reference to the former EastEnders landlady, was fatally injured in the fall in Birmingham.
Her son Andrew France, 53, collected the six-stone pensioner before he jumped with her in his arms as the flames tore apart their home in Lapworth Grove, Balsall Heath, on April 18 last year, BirminghamLive reported.
