Murder accused 'made life difficult' for fire crews

The owner of a block of flats where two young jockeys, one of them Irish, died in a fire told a jury today how the man accused of starting the blaze was “making life difficult” for firefighters as they fought the flames.

Alan Foster told a court how Peter Brown was outside the flats complex in Norton, North Yorkshire, as emergency services tackled the fire which killed Jamie Kyne, 18, from Kiltrogue, Co Galway, and Jan Wilson, 19, from Forfar, Scotland.