Two people have been charged with murder after a house fire in which three children died.
Demi Pearson, 14, her eight-year-old brother Brandon and seven-year-old sister Lacie died in the blaze in Worsley, Greater Manchester, on Monday.
Zac Bolland, 23, of Blackleach Drive, Worsley, has been charged with three counts of murder, four counts of attempted murder and one count of arson with intent to endanger life.
Courtney Brierley, 20, of Worsley Avenue, Worsley, has been charged with the same offences.
Bolland was arrested just a few hundred yards from the scene on Monday evening, footage posted to Facebook appears to show.
In the video, several dark-clothed officers can be seen flanking a handcuffed man with his face obscured by a grey hooded top as another man shouts “Dead man walking” off camera.
Lauren Murray, who captured the moment in Grosvenor Road at around 6pm, said: “I was walking down the street to go home and saw the police driving down really slow and then they pulled up outside my house.
“The next thing, I saw Zac in a silver car so I got my phone out and started filming because I knew people would want to see him caught.
“Courtney was sat in the back of the car surrounded by police while he was led away, her face was just white.”
Bolland and Brierley are due to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.
Police made six arrests in the hours following the suspected arson attack on the family home of Michelle Pearson and her children in Jackson Street, Walkden, at around 5am.
The scene in Jackson Street in Worsley (Peter Byrne/PA)
The 35-year-old is still in a serious condition in hospital, while a fourth child, three-year-old Lia, is critically ill.
Two 16-year-old boys – Ms Pearson’s son, Kyle, and a friend – were also in the house but managed to escape before fire crews arrived.
Kyle reportedly tried to get back into the home to help family members but was beaten back by flames and smoke.
Since the tragedy it has emerged that the Pearson family had been living under threat, sources have confirmed.
(Peter Byrne/PA)
Security measures were put in place at the mid-terrace home, including the fitting of a device to the property’s letterbox.
The arrangements, known as target hardening, are generally used to strengthen a building to protect it in the event of an attack.
Greater Manchester Police confirmed there had been “earlier incidents” at the address and said the force had referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
It is understood the voluntary referral was in response to police contact with the family less than 24 hours before the fatal incident.
Ms Pearson remains heavily sedated in hospital and is unaware that her children have died.
The IPCC investigation is under way and is expected to focus on the contact between Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and the family after officers were called to the address in the hours before the fire.