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Three arrested on suspicion of murder over Derby house fire

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of murder following a house fire in Derbyshire.

Amy Smith, 17; her six month old daughter Ruby Gaunt and Ed Green, 17, died in the blaze at the flat in Langley Mill.

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Father 'threw son out of window on to mattress' to save him from blaze

A neigbour of the the home which succumbed to a blaze in the early hours of this morning killing three said he saw a father throw his son out of a window to save him from the blaze.

Neighbour Paul Barber said: "We went around to the said of the property and see the people still trapped in the property. One of out neigbours actually threw his son out of the window on to a mattress to get him to safety and a couple of other people ran around to get some ladders, to put up to property for people to climb out of."

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