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By Cate McCurry

Waterford family killed in arson attack were victims of ‘web of evil’

Callum Jayden Waterford Earth

The hearses arriving arriving for the funeral of Philip and Kim English and their sons, Jayden and Callum, at the Sacred Heart Church Parish Centre, The Folly, Waterford (Evan Treacy/PA) - (PA Wire)

A family killed in an arson attack are the innocent victims of a “web of evil”, and were a “beautiful family who did no wrong to anybody”, their funeral mass has heard.

Philip and Kim (nee Companjen) English and their sons Callum, 12, and Jayden, nine, died after their home was attacked in Waterford last Tuesday.

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