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William Ton, Holly Hales and Callum Godde

Police close in on arsonists after innocent life lost

Police said performer Katie Tangey suffered a horrible fate and shouldn't have been killed. (Supplied by Chanie Hyde via Gofundme / Aap/AAP PHOTOS)

An innocent woman is the first civilian life lost in Victoria's tobacco wars after two "gutless" arsonists set a home ablaze in a case of mistaken identity, as detectives begin to close in on the perpetrators.

Katie Tangey, 27, died after arsonists hit the wrong address while she was house-sitting her brother's home in Truganina, in Melbourne's west, in the early hours of January 16.

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