A shocked family have launched an appeal for witnesses after their 80-year-old relative was left fighting for her life after being found on fire.
Brenda Raymond, 80, was discovered alight in a first-floor communal area of her block of flats in Caractacus Cottage View, Watford, on Monday.
Officers were called to the scene at 12.47pm, but Ms Raymond was left with life-threatening injuries and is now in a critical condition in hospital.
The ‘fun-loving and much-loved’ woman had, to her stunned family’s horror, been doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire.
A 33-year-old man from Watford was arrested yesterday on suspicion of conspiracy
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