<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A scorned woman's wrath seemed to "bubble and fester" for months after she was evicted from a share house, a judge has said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It culminated with Tsai-Wei Hung visiting her landlord's home and setting the entrance on fire while seven people including two children and an elderly woman were inside.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Go to hell," Hung, dubbed the "housemate from hell" by her victims, yelled in Mandarin before igniting the blaze.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/interest-rates-major-banks-announce-rate-changes-following-rba-hike/ef7913a0-37ce-49a0-a063-ce159c48d6b2" target="_blank"><strong><span>Big four banks all pass on RBA rate hike</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Hung, 33, was jailed for up to six years and two months in Melbourne's County Court today after pleading guilty to four arsons, extortion and conduct endangering persons.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Judge Carolene Gwynn described her offending as an "extraordinary, volatile and frankly dangerous" response to being evicted and asked to leave her former share house.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Not only was your animosity towards your victims clearly ongoing, but your wrath seemed to bubble and fester," she told Hung.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/tsai-wei-hung-housemate-from-hell-jailed-over-post-eviction-arson/e4e6d9a2-4eec-4f51-8871-2d69c5785811" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You pursued a terrifying vendetta, affecting numerous victims, in a premeditated course of conduct, involving arson, dangerous driving, criminal damage, extortion and of course the charges relating to your reckless conduct."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Hung became emotional during the sentence and it had to be briefly adjourned to allow her time to calm down.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Her three-month tirade began the day she was evicted, on March 11, 2024, when she hurled eggs at a garage door.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Hung then accelerated towards her former housemate Chung-Ting Tuan and landlord Lin Zhang at speed, stopping sharply one metre away from them.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She drove into the garage roller door, damaging it and three vehicles parked inside, fleeing before police arrived.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Hung returned the next day and damaged the vehicles inside the garage further, then went to police and claimed "she just wanted to scare them".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/south-australia-bushfires-cape-jarvis-silverton/52a8fe4a-0358-4c40-bda0-76c43177ac26" target="_blank"><strong><span>Fears homes may have been lost as bushfires rage in South Australia</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Three months later, on June 10, she returned to her former Clyde North home and set the front door on fire before setting two cars alight.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She tried to extort her victims by demanding her landlord pay her $30,000, and warning Zhang and his family "be careful or they will have the same experience as me, or even lose more than that".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>His Clyde North tenants were afraid and arranged to stay with Zhang and his family on June 11.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>There were seven people at Zhang's Berwick home - including his two kids and their grandmother - when Hung visited early on June 12.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She poured accelerant outside the front entry to the home and used matches to set it alight. Luckily no one was injured and the fire went out itself on the concrete.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Gwynn said she was concerned about Hung's actions and reactions in the three-month period, combined with her limited remorse.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Your capacity to deal with conflict and or stress in the future is unknown," she said, as she sentenced Hung.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Hung has already served one year and seven months of her sentence, and will have to spend four years behind bars before she is eligible for parole.</span></div></div>