Arsonist drug user set fire to his mattress because he “couldn’t live on a tenner a day”

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To keep up with Trafford news sign up to the MyTrafford newsletter here A serial arsonist set fire to his mattress because “couldn’t live on a tenner a day”, a court has heard.

Staff at the sheltered accommodation where Anthony Orton was living capped his daily income because he was spending his benefits on cocaine and cannabis.

He reacted by setting fire to his mattress and fleeing from the block of flats where other vulnerable people were sleeping. READ MORE:List of all areas in England and Wales affected by Met Office's first-ever extreme heat warning In the minutes after putting a lighter to his bedding, Orton called police and told them he had started the fire “because he couldn’t live on a tenner a day”.