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Holly Evans & Tim Hanlon

Teen said 'people are going to get terrorised' before killing woman, 88, with firework

Two teenagers who set a house on fire causing the death of an 88-year-old woman by throwing a firework through the letterbox have been jailed.

Josephine Smith, 88, is believed to have been asleep when a Megaburst firework set off two successive explosions which set her Romford home ablaze on October 28, 2021.

Kai Cooper, 19, had declared "people are going to get terrorised tonight" before buying fireworks and lighters and embarking on a crime spree in East London, reported MyLondon.

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