A police officer called to the home of a mother and her four children murdered hours later in an arson attack told a court she thought their killer was making “empty threats” and did not try to arrest him.
Pc Gemma Quinn told Bolton Coroner’s Court she did not think it necessary to arrest Zak Bolland, 26, “there and then” after a 999 call from Michelle Pearson, 37, when he threatened her son and home on Jackson Street in Walkden, Salford.
