Boy died 'in arson'.THE death of a nine-year-old boy in a house fire is being treated as murder, an inquest inquest, in law, a body of men appointed by law to inquire into certain matters. The term also refers to the inquiry itself as well as to the findings of the inquiry. heard. Aaron Smith suffered third degree burns to 90 per cent of his body after a fire was started at his home in Hull in May. The youngster managed to escape the blaze through his bedroom window and plunged several feet on to a flat roof. But he died in hospital 10 weeks after the blaze. As the inquest into Aaron's death opened on Thursday, his distraught dis·traught adj. 1. Deeply agitated, as from emotional conflict. 2. Mad; insane. [Middle English, alteration of distract, past participle of distracten, mum Maggie paid tribute to her "brave little boy". She said: "I am trying to be brave for him. It used to upset him if I cried." She was cleared as a suspect but now a man has been charged with arson. |
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