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| Leicester explosion: Three men found guilty of murder | Leicester explosion: Three men found guilty of murder |
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| Three men have been found guilty of murder after an explosion at a shop killed five people, including a mother and her two sons. | Three men have been found guilty of murder after an explosion at a shop killed five people, including a mother and her two sons. |
| The blast destroyed a supermarket and the flat above where a family lived on Hinckley Road, Leicester, in February. | |
| The city's crown court heard the men caused the explosion in order to make about £300,000 in an insurance scam. | The city's crown court heard the men caused the explosion in order to make about £300,000 in an insurance scam. |
| Aram Kurd, Hawkar Hassan and Arkan Ali had denied five counts of murder in addition to conspiracy to commit fraud. | Aram Kurd, Hawkar Hassan and Arkan Ali had denied five counts of murder in addition to conspiracy to commit fraud. |
| The killers had lit 26 litres of petrol in the basement of the shop, Leicestershire Police said. | |
| Shane Ragoobeer, 18, his 17-year-old brother Sean, Shane's girlfriend Leah Beth Reek, 18, and the brothers' mother, Mary Ragoobeer, 46, were in the flat when the explosion occurred at about 19:00 GMT on 25 February. | |
| Viktorija Ijevleva, 22, was working in the shop at the time of the blast and was also killed. | |
| The five-week trial was told the defendants left Ms Ijevleva to die because she was aware of the insurance policy taken out less than three weeks earlier. | |
| The investigation led police to trawl through more than 700 hours of CCTV footage, and examine more than 2,500 exhibits, 1,000 witness statements and 4,000 different lines of inquiry. | |
| Leicestershire Police said shopkeeper Kurd, who spoke to the BBC after the blast, "probably felt there was a need" to tell his story in a deceitful bid to cover his tracks. | |
| The three men are due to be sentenced on 18 January. |