Woman who set fire to Canberra home with children inside jailed for more than nine years FriFriday 18 updated FriFriday 18 DecDecember 2020 at 1:43pm The woman deliberately set fire to her home while suffering a major depressive episode last year. ( Share Print text only Cancel A Canberra woman has been jailed for more than nine years, after the ACT Supreme Court found she made an "extreme breach of parental obligation" when she tried to kill her two children by setting fire to their home. Key points: Earlier this week, the court heard the woman had been suffering a major depressive episode at the time of the fire