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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Rob Kennedy & Kit Roberts

'Overwhelmed' mum told kids to get out of family home before setting it on fire

A mum set her house on fire after telling her children to leave the house as she had become "overwhelmed" by her situation.

Cheryl Duggan had been been unable to cope with her life, and took the extreme step in the early hours of the morning in an attempt to kill herself.

She was rescued from the building, but her attempt caused more than £10,000 of damage to the council, as well as putting the lives of other people at risk, ChronicleLive reports.

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