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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Cate McCurry and Mícheál Ó Scannáil

Funeral held for family killed in Waterford arson described as victims of ‘web of evil’

The coffins of Philip and Kim English and their sons, Jayden and Callum, being carried out of the Sacred Heart Church Parish Centre - (PA)

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

Philip and Kim (nee Companjen) English and their sons, 12-year-old Callum and nine-year-old Jayden, died after their home was attacked last Tuesday in the Birchwood estate area.

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