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| Leicester house fire deaths: Man charged | Leicester house fire deaths: Man charged |
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| An 18-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with a house fire in which four people died. | An 18-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with a house fire in which four people died. |
| Shehnila Taufiq, her sons Jamal and Bilal and daughter Zainab died in the fire in Wood Hill, Leicester on 12 September. | Shehnila Taufiq, her sons Jamal and Bilal and daughter Zainab died in the fire in Wood Hill, Leicester on 12 September. |
| The Crown Prosecution Service said the evidence had been reviewed and it was decided it was "in the public interest for a prosecution to take place". | The Crown Prosecution Service said the evidence had been reviewed and it was decided it was "in the public interest for a prosecution to take place". |
| He will appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on Friday. | He will appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on Friday. |
| Police have not yet ruled out a link to the murder of a man in Kent Street, hours earlier. | |
| Assistant Chief Constable for Leicestershire Police, Roger Bannister, said: "We do not believe at this moment that either the murder of Antoin Akpom or the murders on Wood Hill are racially motivated." |