‘McElhill didn’t try to escape’

NEW details about Arthur McElhill, 39, a convicted sex offender, emerged last night.

One man who knew him said: “You never knew what he’d be thinking, but if you were to ask me to sum him up, I’d say he was a control freak.

“Maybe she (Lorraine) had enough, and wanted to move out with the kids. I know her family were very unhappy that she stayed with him. But he was having none of it and depression or no depression it (the fire) was done in such a way that nobody was getting out.”