Fire death father was treated for depression

A father who killed himself and six other family members when he set fire to their home was treated for depression two months before the fatal blaze, a coroner’s court heard today.

A doctor outlined Arthur McElhill’s state of mind prior to the incident as firefighters described for the first time the horrific scenes that met them inside the gutted terraced house in Omagh, Co Tyrone in the wake of the inferno.