A judge took pity on a clinically depressed mother who attempted to murder her daughter and kill herself in a house fire, saying she deserved "compassion, not punishment".The distressed woman, whose actions were "borne of despair", torched coats hanging up in the hallway with a cigarette lighter at 4am.She disabled two fire alarms and went back to sleep, alongside her 11-year-old daughter, Leicester Crown Court was told.As the blaze mushroomed into a fireball downstairs, the...
