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Patients evacuated from 'suspicious' hospice fire

Patients have been evacuated from a hospice in St. Lenonards after a fire, which police are treating as suspicious

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Hospice patient "too ill" to be questioned about starting deadly fire

The unnamed suspect is currently too ill to be questioned by police Credit: Eddie Mitchell

A 67 year-old man, arrested on suspicion of murder, was a patient at the hospice he is accused of setting on fire. The unnamed suspect is currently too ill to be questioned by police.

Two people died as a result of the fire at St. Michael's hospice in St. Leonards, Sussex.

Celia Pyke-Lees is the Chief Executive of St Michael's Hospice.

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