In just moments, a 13-year-old boy went from sleeping to smouldering as he jumped out of a burning house set ablaze by a molotov cocktail from a disgruntled neighbour.

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Arthur Haines was sleeping on the top floor of a house in Waterloo, in Sydney's inner south, with other children on April 9, 1998 before a visit to the Royal Easter Show.

But he soon became the victim of a bitter neighbourhood dispute that turned deadly after Gregory John Walker, then 30, threw a molotov cocktail into the kitchen of the house.

Arthur became trapped as the fire spread rapidly and was forced to jump from a window, according to the agreed facts.

He was smoulder

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