A 49-year-old woman was taken to Whiston Hospital with severe burns after being found in the back garden of her Blackbrook home.

Firefighters were called to the house in O'Sullivan Crescent at about 5am on Tuesday, February 15.

The woman suffered 50 per cent burns to her body and is being treated in Whiston Hospital's Burns Unit.

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