POLICE are still seeking the whereabouts of a Sophia Primary School teacher who allegedly set her house ablaze with her husband and teenage son inside on Tuesday last, at their lot 1419 Section “E” Field Cummings Park, Sophia home.

Police said the woman has since not turned up to her workplace neither at her mother’s house as investigations continue into the arson.

The teacher identified as 46-year-old Brucene Walters, initially tried to burn the building down on Monday when she set fire to some building materials which was stored under their home but was unsuccessful.

It is alleged that the materials were bought by her older son with her assistance as he intended to construct a small shack in which he and his girlfriend planned to live.

However, in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, she set fire to the bed in which her husband Richard Walters, 49, was sleeping.

Walters suffered minor burns and was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital and discharged.

Richard Walters related that when he sprung out of his bed he saw flames and did not know it was the work of his wife.

However, it was when he rushed to assist her and his 15-year-old son out of the house that he realised that it was his wife who had committed the act when she threw a lit kerosene stove at him before fleeing the scene.

The traumatised husband said he could not believe what happened since their youngest child was in the house when it was set ablaze.

When questioned what could have been a motive for her action, the man said he and his wife had an argument earlier in the night and she had accused him of infidelity. Walters has denied the infidelity accusation but acknowledged that it was the reason being the arson.

He lamented that all his possessions and important documents have been destroyed.