‘Dad tried to kill us’: The fire that devastated Australia

Allegations that a father killed three of his children in a blaze have highlighted a crisis of family violence.

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Eve’s hand shakes as she pieces it together. She is sitting in her living room in Western Sydney, the burnt-out shell of her neighbour's house - now a crime scene - visible through the blinds.

What happened on this quiet street in the early hours of Sunday morning is hard to reconcile.

A fire that would leave three children dead, including a five-month-old girl, and four more hospitalised alongside their mother.

And a stunning allegation: that this horror - so evident in the wreckage left behind and on the faces of witnesses - was inflicted on these children by their father, who then blocked their attempts to flee.

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