Welfare services involved with the family of registered sex offender Arthur McElhill, who killed himself and his family when he set fire to their Omagh home, were guilty of a series of failings, an investigation into the deaths found today.

YESTERDAY morning’s dreadful fire in Omagh, in which seven members of the McElhill family lost their lives, reminded us of our responsibilities to take all of the precautions we can to make our homes as safe as they can be in the event of a potentially lethal fire.