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A man has been told he may die behind bars after he tried to kill his estranged wife in a devastating fire.

Nicholas Martin stalked Emma Martin for days before pouring petrol through the letterbox at her home in the middle of the night.

The 63-year-old set to fuel alight resulting in a horrific fire which Emma escaped from by jumping out of an upstairs window.

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The 52-year-old victim broke her ankles in the fall as well as a bone in her back.

And her beloved cat TC perished in the fire at the home on Montonmill Gardens in Manchester on October 22 last year, Manchester Evening News reports.

Martin, a former head of estates at Salford Royal Hospital and the Manchester Royal Infirmary, fled

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