The jury in the trial of a labourer accused of murdering two young jockeys by setting light to a block of flats was sent out to consider its verdicts for a second day today.

A blaze at a block of flats in which Jamie Kyne and Jan Wilson died was either started deliberately or there was a catastrophic failure of the alarm system, a fire investigation expert told a jury in England today.

A man accused of killing two young jockeys, one of them Irish, by setting fire to the block of flats in which they were sleeping declined to give evidence at his trial today.

The owner of a block of flats where two young jockeys, one of them Irish, died in a fire told a jury today how the man accused of starting the blaze was “making life difficult” for firefighters as they fought the flames.

A man accused of starting a fire which killed two young jockeys, one of them Irish, was walking around barefoot and obviously drunk after the alarm was raised, a witness told a jury today.

A SURVIVOR of a blaze which killed young Galway jockey Jamie Kyne and Scottish jockey Jan Wilson told a jury the man accused of starting the fire was pacing up and down before firefighters arrived, saying: “Someone’s done this."

A stable hand who escaped from a blazing flat which claimed the lives of two jockeys, one of them Irish, broke down in tears today as a jury heard a recording of a 999 call she made.

A man accused of murdering two young jockeys who died in a fire at a flat in the UK was told today he could face further charges.