Sinéad O’Connor was a mother of four before her unexpected death in July 2023.
07.07.2023 - 18:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The family of a mother and two children murdered in a flat fire said “today is not a happy day” despite their killer being jailed for life.
Jamie Barrow was given a minimum term of 44 years in prison on Friday, July 7 for killing Fatoumatta Hydara and her daughters, Fatimah and Naeemah Drammeh. The 31-year-old torched the family’s neighbouring flat in Fairisle Close, Clifton, Nottingham, in the early hours of last November 20.
Barrow was unanimously convicted of murder by a jury on Tuesday, July 4 after previously admitting manslaughter. He claimed to have believed the flat to be empty at the time he lit the fire by pouring petrol siphoned from his motorbike through his victims’ letterbox.
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Barrow, 31, drank several cans of lager before taking petrol from his motorbike and set it alight in November last year, after holding what prosecutors described as a “grievance” over rubbish being left in an alleyway.
He used a Clean ‘N Fresh spray bottle to decant the petrol, which he chose deliberately because its slim neck would fit through a letterbox.
He then stood outside the flat in Fairisle Close, Clifton, Nottingham, to watch the fire take hold, ignoring the screams of those inside and later asked housing officers if he would be compensated for his smoke-damaged belongings.
Prosecutor Simon Ash KC had previously told the trial that Barrow “walked casually away” after lighting the petrol with some tissue paper, having watched the flames take hold for “about five minutes”.
He “did nothing to help” his victims who were trapped inside the burning flat, with Fatimah and Naeemah dying in the fire and Mrs Hydara, 28, dying two days
Sinéad O’Connor was a mother of four before her unexpected death in July 2023.
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