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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Annie Owen & Patrick Edrich

Grief 'still raw' 10 years on from fire which killed five members of the same family

Two parents said the "grief is still raw" 10 years after an arson attack ripped through a flat and claimed the lives of five family members.

Steve Allen and Jonty Lewis have wrestled with unimaginable grief about a fire that claimed the lives of five family members including their daughter Skye and son Bailey. Steve and Jonty's lives were ripped apart following the fire in 2012 and over the past 10 years the pair have tried to rebuild their lives for their five other children.

Skye and Bailey had been staying with their aunt Lee-Anna Shiers, her partner Liam Timbrell and their 15-month-old son Charlie, when neighbour Melanie Smith set a fire in the hallway of their flat in Prestatyn, Wales. In a drunken rampage, Smith set fire to a pram in the communal hallway following a row over where it should be kept.

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