Mother cleared of killing children in fire ‘for attention’

A MOTHER, cleared of killing her children in a house fire, wept as she walked free from court yesterday saying she just wanted to start piecing her life back together.

Mother cleared of killing children in fire ‘for attention’

Fiona Adams, 24, was found not guilty by a jury at Nottingham Crown Court of murdering daughter Niamh, five, and two-year-old son Cayden in the blaze in Buxton, Derbyshire.

She escaped from the house in Edale Way with youngest child Kiernan by jumping from an upstairs window just before midnight on April 23 last year.

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