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.

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.

Lawyers for a man accused of killing two young jockeys in a flat fire told a jury today the strength of the evidence against him “is not something you would hang an old coat on, let alone convict a man for the offence of murder”.

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.

Leading jockeys led tributes on Sunday to two of the sport’s future stars who died in an apparent arson attack.