Fire death father had sex with underage girl, court told

A convicted sex offender who killed himself and his family in a house fire was having sex with an underage girl in the month before the blaze, a court in the North heard today.

Arthur McElhill, 36, was also bombarding another minor with texts and calls pleading with her to have intercourse with him in the days prior to torching the home in Omagh, Co Tyrone.