A man who tried to murder his former partner in a house fire that killed her sister and three young children is facing a life sentence.

Sharaz Ali, 40, was ‘motivated by jealousy’ when he burst into Bryonie Gawith’s Bradford home looking for her sister Antonia, who had gone to live there after ending their abusive relationship.

Woken by the sound of the front door being kicked in, Antonia came downstairs to find Ali pouting petrol all over the house before he doused them both in it.

She fled the property hoping Ali would be drawn out after her, but he used a lighter to start the ‘catastrophic’ fire which quickly engulfed the building.

The first police officers on the scene bravely ran inside looking for survivors before firefighters arrived to extinguish the blaze.

While Ali was rescu

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