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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Callum Parke & Ellie Kemp

Arsonist who murdered his neighbour and her two children stood and watched as fire he started took hold

The family of a mother and two children murdered in a flat fire said “today is not a happy day” despite their killer being jailed for life.

Jamie Barrow was given a minimum term of 44 years in prison on Friday, July 7 for killing Fatoumatta Hydara and her daughters, Fatimah and Naeemah Drammeh. The 31-year-old torched the family’s neighbouring flat in Fairisle Close, Clifton, Nottingham, in the early hours of last November 20.

Barrow was unanimously convicted of murder by a jury on Tuesday, July 4 after previously admitting manslaughter. He claimed to have believed the flat to be empty at the time he lit the fire by pouring petrol siphoned from his motorbike through his victims’ letterbox.

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