Police are searching for the culprit after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the home of a 72-year-old Adelaide woman at the weekend.
Janelle Gaston, who lives at the Adelaide address with her son, is a dementia and epilepsy sufferer.
She was treated for smoke inhalation following the attack which saw the flaming concoction thrown at her Cuming Street home around 5am yesterday.
Her adult son, Ronald, who wasn’t home at the time, rushed there to be by his mother’s side after the shocking incident.
“It is pretty scary, knowing that she’s defenceless and that I wasn’t here,” he told Nine News.
“I was shaken up a bit when I first got here. It makes me angry to think that I could be targeted.”
Witness Zara Goss told Nine News she had been asleep when she was woken by “a yell and a bang”.
The front of the brick house was engulfed by the flames, but fire crews were quickly on scene and brought the blaze under control in minutes.
