Prosecutors want Roland Griffiths jailed for life for setting his wife on fire in front of children. Photo: James Ross/AAP PHOTOS

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

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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 bur

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