Prestatyn fire: Melanie Smith accused of murdering family
A neighbour has been accused of killing five members of the same family by deliberately starting a fire in a row over a pushchair.
Melanie Smith, 43, denies murdering the two adults and three young children in the blaze at a flat in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, last October.
The defendant set the fire deliberately due to a dispute over where a pushchair was left, Mold Crown Court heard.
She was said to be jealous of Lee-Anna Shiers, who lived in the flat above.
Matthew Richards reports.
10 Apr 2013
- From the section Wales