Arsonist Jamie Barrow has been found guilty of the murders of a mum and her little girls after setting fire to their flat, and watching it burn. Fatoumatta Hydara, 28, and daughters three-year-old Fatimah Drammeh and one-year-old Naeemah Drammeh, died from smoke inhalation after depressed neighbour Jamie Barrow, who found fire relieved stress, poured petrol through their letterbox as they slept.
The mum and her children were rescued from their one-bedroom first-floor, in Fairisle Close, Clifton, by brave fighfighters who entered the burning home wearing breathing gear. Reclusive Barrow had admitted the manslaughter of the young family but denied their murder, claiming he believed the property was unoccupied at the time.
But a jury convicted him unanimously this morning (Tuesday, July 4) of their murder. He will be sentenced this Friday.
