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An arsonist who tried to murder his wife by setting fire to her home as she slept has been jailed for 30 years.

Nicholas Martin, 63, ‘stalked’ his wife Emma for days before turning up at her home in the middle of the night, pouring petrol through her letterbox and setting it alight. She became trapped on the first floor of the house in Eccles , and was forced to jump out of her bedroom window to escape.

Ms Martin, 52, a senior civil servant with His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, broke both her ankles and a bone in her back. Martin, a former head of estates at Salford Royal Hospital and the Manchester Royal Infirmary, fled to the Lake District but was caught the following day.

Now, after being found guilty of attempted murder, Martin has been sentenced to 30 years in

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