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Father and sons jailed for life over flat fire murders

A father and his sons have been jailed for life with a total minimum term of 81 years for murdering two teenagers and a six-month-old baby in a flat fire.

Peter Eyre, 44, and sons Anthony, 22, and Simon, 24, were convicted at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday of setting a fire in a botched revenge attack in Langley Mill, Derbyshire.

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Mother of Langley fire victim: 'We are the ones living a lifelong sentence without our beautiful girls'

Amy Smith and her daughter Ruby-Grace were killed in a fire last June Credit: ITV News Central

The mother of a teenage girl murdered in a flat fire in Derbyshire has praised authorities for the investigation which led to the successful conviction of the men responsible for her death.

Speaking outside of Nottingham Crown Court, Melanie Hawkins said she was pleased justice has been served.

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