Breakthrough four and a half years after schoolboy killed in arson attack

THE family of a schoolboy who died in an arson attack were last night praying the first major breakthrough in four-and-a-half years would at last tell them who killed their son and why.

Stephen Hughes-Connors, 12, died on September 1, 2001.

He had told his mother he was sleeping over with a neighbouring relative but camped out with pal Darren Hall in a makeshift den built of wooden pallets and old carpets.