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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Murder suspect in Bradford house fire is in a coma and ‘may not recover’

Court sketch of Mohammed Shabir and Calum Sunderland
Mohammed Shabir and Calum Sunderland have been remanded in custody until a plea and trial preparation hearing. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA

A man arrested on suspicion of murder at the scene of a house fire that killed a mother and her three children is in a coma and “may not recover”, a court has heard.

Bryonie Gawith, 29, and her three children – Denisty Birtle, nine, Oscar Birtle, five, and 22-month-old Aubree Birtle – died in the early hours of last Wednesday, after a fire at their home in Bradford.

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