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Rui Vieira
Family

Eight convicted over fire that killed Dublin neurosurgeon's family

Four people died in a blaze at the family home last September.

EIGHT PEOPLE, INCLUDING a teenager, have been convicted over an arson attack that killed the family of a Dublin-based neurosurgeon.

BBC News reports that seven men and one male teenager were found guilty over the attack – two men of murder and four men and the teen of manslaughter.

They were convicted over a “botched revenge attack” in which Shehnila Taufiq and her children Zainab, Bilal and Jamal died in September 2013.

Shehnila’s husband is Muhammad Taufiq Abdulsattar, of Beaumont Hospital.

Fatal house fire court case Dr Taufiq Al Sattar (centre) praying over the coffins of his family Niall Carson Niall Carson

The blaze broke out in the early hours of the morning of 13 September, in the family’s home in the Spinney Hills area of Leicester.

The defendants will be sentenced on Wednesday.

In an interview after the tragic incident, Dr Abdulsattar said he drew strength from the Quaran. He said that he had people in Dublin and in Leicester supporting him.

Read: Ryanair promises to refund Dr Sattar for Leicester flight fees>

Read: Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar: ‘The words of the Quran have given me strength’

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