Inquiry into rapist's death blaze 'should not be witch hunt'

A public inquiry into how a convicted sex offender was able to kill himself and his family in a deliberate house fire should not become a witch hunt, social workers warned today.

Stormont’s health committee is considering calling for a public probe into alleged failings in how the authorities managed double rapist Arthur McElhill before he torched the family home in Omagh, Co Tyrone.