‘He’s still part of our family and always will be’

Stephen Hughes Connors died in a fire when he was just 12. Ten years on, the search is ongoing for his killer, writes Caroline O’Doherty

THIS Christmas, as she always does, Liz Hughes will buy some very special gifts she can’t deliver.

They’ll be for her eldest son, Stephen, who died 10 years ago when the makeshift den he and other local children made to play in was set on fire while he slept inside.