Fatal blaze 'started by cigarette', murder accused told landlady

A mother-of-four accused of murdering her mother-in-law in a fatal fire she allegedly started deliberately for inheritance cash told her landlady it had been started by a discarded cigarette. A jury heard how Karen Vamplew said she had been told that by the fire brigade the day after the blaze killed Elizabeth Vamplew, known as Anne, in Newark.

“I could not see anything. The fire crew said to me ‘you need to get out, you need to get out,’ I was coughing like mad, I just could not get to her. “It was really, really, bad and we got to say our goodbyes. I got a phone call at 3.15pm to say she had passed away.” The jury has previously heard from a number of witnesses since the trial began last week. One of them was Mrs Vamplew’s sister, Jean Scott, who told the trial that the victim was “pretty badly disabled” and “a secret smoker” who only ever had a cigarette in the kitchen of her bungalow which she had moved to “two or three years” before her death owing to her struggling mobility.

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