25/02/2009

Two In Court Over Flat Fire Deaths

Two men have been charged with the murder of a teenage girl and her grandmother, who died in a fire in east London.

The bodies of Shannen Vickers, 17, and Pauline Adams, 57, were discovered on the fifth floor of Malmesbury House, Cyprus Street in Bethnal Green, on Sunday morining.

Jake Sheehan, 19, of Bethnal Green, and David Phillip, 18, of Bow, east London, are due to appear at Havering Magistrates' Court later today, charged with their murders.

The fire brigade was called to the seven-storey property at about 6am on Sunday, where the victims were discovered in the rear bedroom of the three-bedroom flat.

(JM/KMcA)

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