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| The jury at an inquest into the deaths of a mother and daughter who died in a car fire has recorded verdicts of suicide and unlawful killing. | The jury at an inquest into the deaths of a mother and daughter who died in a car fire has recorded verdicts of suicide and unlawful killing. |
| Fiona Pilkington, 38, of Barwell, Leicestershire, set fire to her car in October 2007 as she and Francecca Hardwick, 18, sat inside. | |
| The jury said the police response had played a part in their deaths. | |
| The Home Secretary Alan Johnson called the case "shocking and immensely distressing". | |
| The jury criticised a failure to share information between the police and the local council. | |
| The inquest at Loughborough Town Hall heard that Ms Pilkington, her daughter and her son, Anthony, a severe dyslexic, suffered more than 10 years of abuse from a gang of teenagers living on their street in Barwell, Leicestershire. | |
| Ms Pilkington is believed to have poured the contents of a 10-litre can of petrol over clothes in the back seat of the car, and set them alight. | |
| Mr Johnson said the family "suffered intimidation at the hands of a local gang, culminating in a sustained level of abuse that no family should have to tolerate". | |
| "Leicestershire Police and their local authority partners have had some hard lessons to learn about past failures, which will be the subject of further investigations," he added. |