I’m lucky to be alive after blaze ripped through my home in ‘petrol bomb attack’, I’m so scared I can’t stop crying
A WOMAN says she is “lucky to be alive” after her home was targeted in a suspected petrol bomb attack.
Zara Groves, 51, has been left terrified after a blaze ripped through the property in Llandudno, North Wales.
The fitness instructor, who was inside at the time, recalled raising the alarm after being confronted by flames as she opened her front door.
Emergency services raced to the scene just before 10pm last Thursday and Zara escaped without injury.
But she now says she has been plagued by fear of another blaze.
She told : "I keep crying all the time, am absolutely heartbroken and am so frightened I have to be around people or talking to people all the time right now."
Stuart Hughes, 40, has been charged with arson in connection with the incident.
Later sharing pictures and videos of the extensive damage inside her home, Zara wrote online: "So the most frightening thing of my life happened last night - someone put a petrol bomb through my door. This is what my house looks like now.
"I have to say I cannot believe the kindness being offered to me from everyone on my estate and of course my friends and family.
“I pray they catch this person because someone could have died."
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Following the incident, a spokesman for North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the property was set alight on purpose.
He said: "We were called at 21.46 to Ffordd Dewi, Llandudno, Conwy, two crews from Llandudno attended and used two hose reel jets and two sets of breathing apparatus to extinguish the fire.
“The fire was thought to be deliberate."
On Saturday, North Wales Police issued a statement to confirm that a man had been charged with arson with intent to endanger life.
Hughes, of Llandudno, appeared before magistrates on Monday.
He is due to appear at Caernarfon Crown Court next month.
