The fire service initially sent eight fire engines to the scene on Warwick Road, Sparkhill, at 7.15am, but quickly increased the level of support upon realising the scale of the blaze.
The group of thugs were captured on camera pulling up to an ordinary-looking house in an Audi and a BMW, before storming the property in Sparkhill, Birmingham in May 2021.
Originally from Sparkhill in Birmingham, the prolific sexual predator was jailed for 32-years in 2021 after police uncovered a multitude of barbaric sexual crimes.