{"id":28372,"date":"2019-02-08T15:49:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28372"},"modified":"2019-02-08T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:49:55","slug":"two-people-have-been-arrested-in-connection-with-the-tragic-stafford-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/08\/two-people-have-been-arrested-in-connection-with-the-tragic-stafford-house-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people have been arrested in connection with the tragic Stafford house Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fire swept through a family\u2019s home in Sycamore Lane, Highfields, on Tuesday morning (February 5<sup>th<\/sup>)<\/p>\n<p>Two people a women aged 24 and a man aged 28 have been arrested over a devastating Stafford house fire which killed four children.<\/p>\n<p>Riley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three were killed when the blaze wept through the family home in Stafford, on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Their mother Natalie Karen Unitt survived, along her partner Chris Moulton and their two-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p>Staffordshire Police confirmed two people had been arrested in a statement today.<\/p>\n<p>They said: &#8220;Officers from Staffordshire Police have made two arrests this afternoon (Feb 8) following a house fire in Stafford on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following an update from investigators into the probable cause of the fire we have arrested a 24-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The arrests were made at around 1.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The man and woman are in custody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This incident has had a huge impact on the community and we understand there will be confusion and a demand for information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, we would urge people not to speculate as to what may have happened and appeal for patience as the investigation continues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The children\u2019s tragic deaths have shocked the community, which has united in grief to support the family with a fundraising campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The crowdfunding page was set up by Stephen Glover, a parent of a child at Castle Primary, where Riley, Tilly and Olly were pupils.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people have already donated more than \u00a318,000, the total edging increasingly closer to the \u00a325,000 target.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook page has also been set up called &#8216;Community Help for Highfields family&#8217; with dozens of people offering assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fire swept through a family\u2019s home in Sycamore Lane, Highfields, on Tuesday morning (February 5th) Two people a women aged 24 and a man aged 28 have been arrested over a devastating Stafford house fire which killed four children. Riley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}