The house where a convicted sex offender started an inferno which killed his partner and five children in the North has been demolished.

A DEPRAVED sexual predator who was abusing a teenage babysitter killed himself and the rest of his family in a deliberate house fire because his partner threatened to leave him, a coroner ruled yesterday.

A convicted sex offender killed himself and six other family members in a house fire because his long-time partner had threatened to leave him, a coroner ruled today.

A father who killed himself and six other family members when he set fire to their home was treated for depression two months before the fatal blaze, a coroner's court heard today.

A father who killed himself and six other family members when he set fire to their home was treated for depression two months before the fatal blaze, a coroner’s court heard today.

Relatives wept today as they listened to a harrowing 999 call made by a terrified schoolgirl moments before she died with six other family members in a house fire started by her father.

Police in the North were today ordered by a coroner to hand over files from their complaints and discipline branch for an inquest into the death of a man found dead two days after making a 999 call to which police did not respond.

A homeless teenage girl who died from an overdose of anti-depressants was banned from visiting her mother the night before her death, an inquest heard today.

An elderly woman returned home after attending Mass with her daughter to the horror of finding her husband ablaze in the garden of their Co Antrim home, an inquest heard today.

A lorry driver was blown off the Foyle Bridge in Derry in high winds which would have shut all comparable bridges in the United Kingdom to high-sided vehicles, an inquest heard today.

A BABY boy suffocated when he was trapped upside-down in his high chair while his mother washed dishes, an inquest was told yesterday.

A DRUNK driver drowned trying to swim across the border from the North to the Republic in a bid to escape police.