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| Westcliff tower block fire: Man detained for killing pregnant woman | Westcliff tower block fire: Man detained for killing pregnant woman |
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| A man who killed a pregnant woman and her unborn baby by starting a fire in a tower block has been detained under the Mental Health Act. | A man who killed a pregnant woman and her unborn baby by starting a fire in a tower block has been detained under the Mental Health Act. |
| Lillo Troisi, 48, admitted manslaughter and arson after Khabi Abrey, 30, and her baby were found at a flat in Westcliff-on-Sea, in Essex, on 7 May 2016. They died two days later. | Lillo Troisi, 48, admitted manslaughter and arson after Khabi Abrey, 30, and her baby were found at a flat in Westcliff-on-Sea, in Essex, on 7 May 2016. They died two days later. |
| Troisi, who has paranoid schizophrenia, had not taken medication for 18 months. | Troisi, who has paranoid schizophrenia, had not taken medication for 18 months. |
| He was acutely psychotic at the time, Blackfriars Crown Court heard. | |
| The court was also told he had a history of drug taking and drug abuse. | |
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| Troisi, who lived on the eighth floor of the Balmoral Road tower block, had deliberately started the fire with a can of petrol in the hallway outside Mrs Abrey's ninth-floor flat. | |
| She was unconscious when emergency services found her. | |
| Mrs Abrey, who was eight months pregnant, died in hospital from complications after breathing in fumes, post-mortem tests showed. | |
| Her baby died after suffering a cardiac arrest. | |
| Troisi had pleaded guilty to manslaughter and arson, but denied charges of murder and child destruction at an earlier hearing in November. | |
| At the time, Det Ch Insp Marina Ericson, from Essex Police, said: "An innocent and beautiful woman who was 32 weeks pregnant needlessly lost her life, and that of her unborn child." |