Three released without charge after fatal arson attack in Ireland

Three people – two women and one man – have been released, and one person remains in custody, gardaí say. Flowers have been left at the home where four people died after an arson attack in Waterford Three people, who were arrested in connection with a suspected arson attack which killed four family members in the Republic of Ireland, have been released, gardaí (Irish police) have said. Philip and Kim English and two of their children – nine-year-old Jayden and 12-year-old Callum – died after their home in Birch Avenue, on the outskirts of Waterford was set on fire earlier this month.

A man aged in his 20s and a woman in her 30s were previously charged in connection with the attack. On Saturday, gardaí said three people – two women in their 30s and a man in his 50s – who were arrested on Tuesday have been released without charge. A fourth person, a man in his 20s who was arrested on Thursday, remains in custody.