Daughter phoned mother trapped in death blaze, inquest told

The daughter of a 52-year-old woman who died in a fire sobbed tonight as she told how she rang her mother as she was trapped in the burning house.

Joanne McHugh told the Dublin City Coroner’s Court how she rang Kathleen Pedley’s mobile phone at the family home in Cherry Orchard Avenue in Ballyfermot after a friend told her a fire had broken out.