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AN arsonist who pretended to play the hero after his neighbour’s flat went up in flames faces jail after admitting he started the fire. The fierce blaze broke out in an upstairs flat on Whitehall Terrace in Sunderland just before midnight in August 2019. Robert Barnett – who lived downstairs – was seen running into the fire in what he claimed was an attempt to save his neighbour living above, after he had heard “screaming” and saw her staircase engulfed in flames. Fearing for her life after finding herself trapped inside, the female occupant jumped from a top-floor window and was left with a fractured spine.