Despite a confession of sorts, Jamie Barrow denied his intention was to murder
Arsonist Jamie Barrow was handed a 44-year minimum term of a life sentence for the murders of Fatoumatta Hydara, aged 28, and daughters, Fatimah Drammeh, aged three, and 18-month-old Naeemah Drammeh. Here Legal affairs correspondent Rebecca Sherdley looks at how police and prosecutors prove their case.
"You used a cigarette lighter to light a tissue in your hand, which you then put through the letter box. There was an immediate fireball, and the fire developed and spread rapidly, with thick toxic black smoke spreading to the upstairs living area of the flat literally within seconds. Within minutes of police arriving at his home, he told one: “I need to tell you something about the fire next door”. He bowed his head and put his hands out in front of him, as though inviting the officers to handcuff him. He then said “Can you get me out of here without being killed?”
He pleaded guilty to the manslaughters of a happy family unit - Fatoumatta Hydara and her two daughters, Fatimah, three, and Naeemah, who was just one. But he denied their murder.There came the challenge for officers who had to prove his intent to murder the Mrs Hydara and her girls, a charge which carries a greater penalty of life.
There was no CCTV showing the front door of Mrs Hydara’s flat - but significant CCTV footage from a nearby camera, in Fairisle Close, showed five important events.A neighbour phoned the Fire Service at 03:17:50 - three to four minutes after the fire alarm had started to sound at Mrs Hydara’s flat. About a minute before the caller arrived outside 23 Fairisle Close, Clifton, the address of Mrs Hydara, the defendant had come out of the alley next to the flat and walked away.
The first team of firefighters who went into the flat were Katharine Swales and Patrick Lee. Katharine Swales noticed a pushchair outside, before she went into the flat.The temperature was so high that Miss Swales’s thermal imaging camera stopped working. They went upstairs. It was hard for them to communicate because of the heat and it was hard to see anything because of the smoke.
Miss Swales was unable to go back inside and a second team of firefighters went into the flat. They were James Smith and Andrew Alexander. Mr Smith found Naeemah in her cot in the bedroom. She too was unconscious. He took her out of the flat and laid her next to her sister, who was being given CPR. Another firefighter started giving CPR to Naeemah.
Each time he spoke to a police officer he appeared calm and composed. He said nothing about the fact he had started the fire. He wanted to know whether he could claim compensation from the local authority if any of his personal property, in his flat, had been damaged. Again, he said nothing about the fact that he had started the fire.
The defendant told his aunt there had been a fire, the emergency services had dealt with it, and he had been evacuated to the university campus.
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