Police charge teenager with fire deaths of Dublin surgeon's family

An 18-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with a house fire which killed four family members of a Dublin surgeon.

Leicestershire Police said the Crown Prosecution Service had authorised them to charge the man in relation to a deadly house blaze in Wood Hill, Leicester, in the early hours of Friday, September 13.

The fire killed Shehnila Taufiq, who was in her 40s, her 19-year-old daughter Zainab and sons Bilal, 17, and Jamal, 15.