Mum runs into burning house to save son, cats and bearded dragons

Carl Dawe torched a caravan outside the property in the early hours in a drunken rage with the fire then spreading to three homes and a car nearby, before the mum ran straight into the flames

A mother rushed into her blazing home to rescue her son, cats and bearded dragons following an arson attack. Carl Dawe set fire to a caravan outside the property in the early hours whilst drunk and enraged, with flames then engulfing three houses and a vehicle.

This resulted in a woman he was having an affair with sustaining burns to her face, neck and hand, which may leave her permanently scarred. He now claims he "lost the plot" during what was described as a "moment of madness in a meltdown".

Liverpool Crown Court heard this afternoon, Friday, that Dawe was in a relationship but had been cond