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A homeless woman is fearing for her life after the tent she was sleeping in was set on fire for the the third time in a matter of weeks.

Jenny and her partner have been homeless for months, living in tents in Grimsby town centre, as they have been unable to find accommodation of their own.

Now after a spate of attacks on them, which has seen the tents that they have been sleeping in set on fire, with them inside, she says they have been "left with nothing" as all of their belongings, clothes and medicine have been completely destroyed in the attacks.

She says that she fears that she is going to be killed, and is covered in burn marks from the most recent fire, as melted plastic from the burning tent fell onto her skin.

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Jenny said: "If these attacks on us do not stop soon we are going to end up dead.

"My partner and I have had the tents we were sleeping in, set on fire three times in the past couple of weeks and it has left of with absolutely nothing.

"A few days ago we were sleeping near to the town centre, when my boyfriend woke me up screaming, saying that we were on fire.

"The tent that we were in was completely ablaze, and the hot melted plastic was dripping down on top of us. It has left me completely covered in burns.

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"Not only that, but everything that I own has been destroyed. I have no clothes, no underwear, no bathroom stuff and my medicine has been destroyed as well, including my asthma inhalers.

"This is the third time that this has happened in a few weeks, as someone set fire to our tents in the waste ground beside the Riverhead, and when we were sleeping in the car park next to the Holiday Inn in town."

Jenny says that because of the attacks, she and her partner have been unable to sleep at night, as they are worried that they might be set on fire again.

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She continued: "We are so worried that someone is going to kill us. My boyfriend has not slept since the last attack, because he is so worried that it might happen again.

"We are homeless and have no where to go, and we have been trying our best to look after what we have left, but now even that is gone, because everything has been destroyed in these fires."

Cath Homewood, who runs the Grimsby Food Kitchen, said that she is "appalled" by the attacks that have been happening on rough sleepers in the area, and would like to see them investigated as arson attacks.

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She said: "I am appalled by the attacks that have been happening on some of the homeless people living in our town recently.

"I cannot fathom how someone could go and set fire to someone's home like that, because when you are living on the streets, that tent is your home and its the only thing that you have got.

"It makes you wonder where some people's hearts are if they are willing to do something so pathetic and devastating to another.

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"If the council are looking for somewhere that the travellers can go and pitch up, then why do they not do the same for the homeless, and give them a safe area where they can pitch a tent up in peace and live safely?

"These attacks are arson and I hope that someone is investigating them before something tragic happens."

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