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The fire-obsessed woman who terrorised neighbours by threatening to torch their homes during lockdown
hereShe had been jailed previously including for 27 months in 1996 for arson and then later for seven-and-half years for causing another fire by pushing a burning Molotov cocktail through a front door.Tom McHale, defending, said his client had also reported the neighbours to the police but he admitted she had shown 'reckless behaviour' for which 'she offers her remorse as far as she possibly can'.Robertson had three grown-up children with whom she no longer had contact 'because of her behaviour in the past', said the barrister, who pointed to her 'voluminous in-take of alcohol' and 'destructive personality'.Her parents separated when she was young and her father had committed suicide 20 years ago, the court heard.