Murder charges over house fire that killed family

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Handout/West Yorkshire Police A selfie of Ms Gawith and her children. Strands of her dark hair frame her face. Her children, all blond, are looking directly at the camera. Her daughter at the back has her tongue sticking out.

Two men have been charged with murder after a mother and her three young children were killed in a house fire.

Bryonie Gawith, 29 and her children Denisty Birtle, nine, Oscar Birtle, eight, and Aubree Birtle, 22 months, died in the blaze on Westbury Road, Bradford, on 21 August.

Mohammed Shabir, 44, of Alice Street, Keighley, and Calum Sunderland, 25, of Calton Street, Keighley, have both been charged with four counts of murder and one count of attempt murder.

Both men are due to appear at Bradford Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

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