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A heartbroken sister has recalled making a desperate plea to emergency services to save her family before they died in a house fire.

Antonia Gawith said she was unable to save her sister Bryonie and her three children - aged nine, five and 22 months - after her former partner Sharaz Ali, 40, set their home on fire.

Antonia had ended her seven-year relationship with abuser Ali and was staying with her sister Bryonie when he set fire to their Bradford home in the early hours of August 21 last year.

She recalled going downstairs after getting home from her shift at Tesco and seeing an 'angry' Ali run into the house with a can of petrol and a lighter. As he doused her in petrol, she tried to wrestle the canister from him.

Unable to get stop him, Antonia ran outside hoping

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