"You know it's so easy to light you guys up when you guys are sleeping, right?"

The man who uttered these words eventually went through with his threat.

While seven children were at home, a heavily intoxicated Roland Griffiths poured petrol onto his wife and set her on fire in front of her two teen daughters.

The girls tried to stop their stepfather and pleaded for him not to hurt their mother, Kylie Sheahan.

One caught on fire herself and suffered burns to more than half her body.

The 16-year-old yelled at Griffiths and took a petrol can out of his hands, as the man grabbed a lighter and threatened to burn their house down.

He held the lighter near the ground, set Ms Sheahan alight and then "everything kind of flashed", she said.

"When I woke up from my coma, I knew before anyone t

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