A lady has been convicted of setting fireplace to her Motherwell dwelling.
Akbibi Macmillan suffered fractures to her again and ribs when she fell as she tried to get out of the blazing property on Morven Drive.
A boy aged eight and two different females escaped unharmed.
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Macmillan, 51, claimed the hearth on July 18, 2020, began by chance, however she was convicted of fireraising after trial at Hamilton Sheriff Courtroom.
Law enforcement officials who had been at her hospital bedside advised the court docket she handed them a observe supposed for her husband that learn 'I do know sorry shouldn't be sufficient for what I did, but it surely was not deliberate or something'.
Within the observe she requested her husband to take care of two kids.
PC Andrew Hossack stated: "She was very emotional and was ranting and raving. She saved attempting to sit down up in mattress and saved saying she was sorry."
The blaze broke out about midday and the court docket heard a neighbour used a ladder to rescue occupants from an upstairs room.
Detective Sergeant Scott Wilson stated separate fires appeared to have been began within the kitchen and the eating room.
Giving proof, Macmillan, who was born in Kazakhstan, stated she normally smoked exterior the home, however on that specific day she had a cigarette indoors as a result of she was upset.
Her husband had left her and that morning she had argued with him on the telephone. She admitted she was "actually emotional".
Macmillan stated she had been utilizing a candle on the eating room desk as an ashtray and that was the place the hearth began.
She grabbed a dishtowel and "flapped" with it, attempting to place out the flames.
She remembered taking the towel into the kitchen and thought she'd put it within the sink, however she accepted she might need left it on prime of a cabinet.
Requested if she had deliberately set fireplace to the home, Macmillan replied: "No."
After the jury's verdict, Sheriff Martin Jones deferred sentence for a prison justice social work report.
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