Fire victim’s son pleads with arsonist to give himself up

The son of an elderly man killed in an arson attack on the family home has appealed directly to the arsonist to give himself up.

On RTÉ’s Crimecall last night, Tomás Crowe spoke for the first time of the horror of seeing his father, Michael, disappear in the burning house as flames shot up towards him.

He described the last time he saw his father alive after being awoken by a loud noise in the early hours of the morning on October 4, 2009.