In December 2017, four minor children of the Pearson family were burned to death in a fire that engulfed their apartment in Salfort, UK.
The fire killed 15-year-old Dami, 8-year-old Brandon, 7-year-old Lacey and 3-year-old Leah. Their mother Michelle received 75% of her body burns and is still in the hospital. She only recently learned that four of her six children have died.
Two older children, 16 and 17 years old, managed to get out, but they received severe burns. At the same time, the eldest son blames himself for everything that he failed to save his three sisters and his younger brother.
The investigation quickly established that the arson was staged by a group of young people - acquaintances of the eldest son, who, prior to the arson, regularly harassed him and threatened his family.
Before that, they threw stones at the windows of their apartment, but Michelle tried to resolve the conflict without involving the police, since she had a very soft heart and she always tried to help people.
And a couple of weeks before the arson, 8-year-old Brandon woke up crying from a nightmare. His aunt Sarah recently spoke about it on a television talk show. When asked what scared him so, the boy said that he saw in a dream how he burns to death.
“He woke up in the night and cried, said 'Mom, I'm dying, I'm on fire.' And his mother hugged him and said that nothing would happen to them, because she was there,”Sarah said, not holding back her tears.
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In May 2018, 23-year-old Zach Bolland and 25-year-old David Worroll received four life sentences each for organizing an arson attack. Their friend Courtney Briarley, 20, received 21 years in prison for complicity.