Killer, 18, detained in hospital

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A teenager who killed a woman and her two-year-old son in a fire above a Kent restaurant must be detained in hospital indefinitely, a judge has said.

Curtis Bushell, 18, from Gillingham, was handed the term at Croydon Crown Court under the Mental Health Act.

The two died, along with the woman's boyfriend, in the blaze above the Turkish restaurant in Chatham in 2005.

Sam Benn, 21, from Medway, was given three concurrent seven-year jail sentences in May for manslaughter.

Rikki Sheehan, 27, her son Charlie, two, and her boyfriend Paul Arnold, 34, died from the effects of breathing in smoke.

Bushell admitted manslaughter at a previous hearing.

Benn and Bushell were caught on CCTV leaving the building shortly after going inside.

They were arrested in Rochester High Street an hour later after emergency services were called to the fire in the early hours of 19 March.

After Benn was sentenced, Det Ch Insp Mick Judge described the incident as a "senseless act which took the lives of three innocent people."