Sally Howes KC and Siobhan Collins were instructed by Susan Woulahan of the West Midlands Complex Casework Unit to prosecute ten men for offences including and surrounding the attempted murders of a woman and her thirteen-year-old child at their home in Stoke-on-Trent.
This was a targeted firebombing of a house in retaliation for a stabbing earlier that day. Neither victim had been involved in the same. Both suffered life-changing injuries.
Two men pleaded guilty to the attempted murders and arson with intent to endanger life. Three others pleaded guilty to the initial violent disorder.
Following an eleven-week trial at Nottingham Crown Court, the remaining five defendants were all found to have criminally participated in this attack: one man was convicted of attempted murder and arson with intent to endanger life and the remaining four were convicted of s.18 GBH (with two of those men also guilty of arson with intent to endanger life).
Sentence is to follow.
Read more:
Men set woman on fire in revenge attack – BBC News
Mother set on fire in front of daughter in ‘revenge attack’ – The Telegraph
Mum and daughter leapt from window as house petrol bombed – 10 men found guilty – Mirror
