article_snippet: Flames swept through the semi-detached house last October where her boys were staying with her boys carpet salesman father.
article_snippet: Home: Flames swept through the semi-detached house in Penistone last year where the boys were staying with the boys carpet salesman father.
article_snippet: Mr Sykes took the keys upstairs before lighting more fires on the first floor, including in the children's bedrooms.
article_snippet: Once this was done Mr Sykes then entered the loft, closing the hatch behind Mr Sykes.
article_snippet: A minute later, neighbours spotted the blaze and the fire service were called with the downstairs well ablaze.
article_snippet: Petrol was used as an accelerant to start the fire with 16 pools of fuel on the ground floor and first floor.
article_snippet: A patio door had been left partly open downstairs to fan the flames.
highlights_snippet: Then Paul set fire downstairs and closed the loft hatch with all three inside .
  