A man has been jailed for three years and nine months after deliberately setting fire to two different properties when members of the same family were inside.
Michael Trainer, 25, of no fixed abode, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty a day earlier to two counts of arson.
Last October, he set fire to a house on Philadelphia Gardens in Upperthorpe, then the next night targeted a house containing five people on Birch House Avenue, Oughtibridge – with a woman, 61, and a girl, 14, inside during both the attacks.
Det Con Kevin Sibley of Sheffield CID said none of those targeted were injured following Trainer’s “mindless violence”.