VICTIM: 19-month-old Siariah Letang died from smoke inhalation
TWO BROTHERS convicted of killing a 19-month-old girl in a "horrifying" revenge arson attack have been given lengthy prison sentences.
Toddler Siariah Letang was overcome by smoke in the blaze in Camberwell, south London, in September, the Old Bailey heard.
Richard Kwakye, 28, of Twickenham, south-west London, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years for murder and attempted murder.
Dimitri John-Lewis, 19, from Paddington, was jailed for 12 years for manslaughter and perverting justice.
Their mother Josephine Nicholas, 46, of Paddington, was jailed for four years for perverting justice by giving police false information.
REVENGE
A court heard how Kwayke started the fire on September 18, 2010, at the family's maisonette in a revenge attack after a fall out.
He poured petrol through the letterbox and set it alight while Siariah and four others slept upstairs.
Police were called shortly after 4.30am to the fire at the address in Arnould Avenue.
Toddler Siariah Letang, who was just 19-months-old, and four members of her family were brought out from the building and all taken to hospital.
Siariah was pronounced dead on arrival at King's College Hospital, having died from carbon monoxide poisoning from inhaling smoke.
Siariah's mother, 24, her four-year-old brother, her 11-year-old half-sister and 45-year-old grandmother suffered from burns and smoke inhalation but were later released from hospital.
After an investigation team from the London Fire Brigade deemed the fire to be arson after the remnants of a plastic bottle were discovered on the doormat along with a piece of tapered paper.
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CommentsYes there is a lot of men on
Yes there is a lot of men on the road like this. and even if this did'nt happen, there would and could have been something else to put this child at risk, as this was the life style they choose so there is always going to be a risk, In this day and age none of us can insure are child future, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, as we read about so often can taken the life of the innocent or the child get mix up with someone else, however in this case it is the Dad & Mum that have taken this child life due to greed, to offered we forget about the bigger picture in these cases, and that being the Dad & Mum associations and life style has chosen this poor Child future and put her at risk
Two wrong don’t make a right, I think it’s a pitted you can’t pick your family, had her dad not been a killer, this child would have never been in this mix,
This fall on the child dad, his desire this life and in doing so his has decided to place the most Helpless in his family at risk. His try to take someone life.
And where was the mum, women need to be more strong and start putting your children before your partner and stop putting the children at risk by staying with partners that put the children at risk, but then there the greed because that would mean that these women could not live the life they do self-indulgence, from the funding of the boyfriends.
Toddlers killers jailed for life
beautiful little girl killed by badmind idiots, only for the disgrace of nature that they call 'mother' to cover for them. i pray these pathetic individuals will suffer long and painful lives in prison. betta get sum soap on a rope . . B*****s!
Justice Served
Thank God that they caught these sick people & they have been locked up. words cannot express the sadness in my heart that Siariah lost her life because of the cruel actions from these two animals who have no soul. who would commit such a crime when innocent people are within there home and do something so horrid. when they all wake each morning, Let it haunt them for the rest of there lives for what they have done. Siariah had her whole life to be lived and u robbed that from her. God never sleeps and I hope that all involved is aware of that.
I am in total agreement with
I am in total agreement with you, they should all suffer the same fate as that babygirl.
Toddler's Killer Jailed For Life
Hey Richard and Dimitri,
sooner or later both of you will definately be another inmates "girlfriend".
As for you Ms Nicholas, you're lower than a snakes stomach.
Amen justice for that little
Amen justice for that little girl and her family at last! These people almost murder an entire family over a petty argument then their worthless disgrace of a 'mother' tries to cover up for them so they can get away with it?? I don't know how she could have slept at night knowing what they did. The 4 year sentence she got should have been longer because she clearly felt no remorse or guilt at all for what her sons did which was an act of MURDER! It's times like these when I think capital punishment should be brought back rather than wasting public money keeping them in prison -an eye for an eye I say.
Ms Nicolas - Are you for real
Ms Nicolas - Are you for real ? You knew what your discussing children did yet you chose to cover for them - you're sentence is no sentence. How are you going to sleep at night - And for your rotten children (Nuf prisoners a wait pun them) LONDON IS NO LONGER A CITY TO RAISE YOUR CHILDREN AND BLACK PEOPLE WHAT REALLY HAPPEN TO US?