Ex-nurse ran a hate campaign

Ex-nurse ran a hate campaign
posted by craven 593 days 1 hour 48 minutes ago

A former nurse who twice tried to burn down a family's home and scrawled offensive graffiti on their door was jailed yesterday. Wheelchair user Angela Hickley posted burning papers through the letterbox of her Iranian neighbours and wrote messages on their door saying "not long now" and "you'll be next". Newcastle Crown Court heard the terrified family were only saved from being burnt to death when their 11-year-old son saw the burning bundle and managed to put it out. Alcoholic Hickley, a former nurse at St Nicholas Hospital, Gosforth, Newcastle, took a dislike to the family and told neighbours they were drug dealers - casting unfounded suspicion within the family on their 17-year-old son.

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