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| Men jailed for £15 debt murders | Men jailed for £15 debt murders |
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| Two men found guilty of starting a fire that killed a 17-year-old girl and her grandmother in east London have been jailed for life at the Old Bailey. | Two men found guilty of starting a fire that killed a 17-year-old girl and her grandmother in east London have been jailed for life at the Old Bailey. |
| Jake Sheehan, 20, of Bethnal Green, and David Philip, 19, from Bow, had denied murdering the pair over a £15 debt. | Jake Sheehan, 20, of Bethnal Green, and David Philip, 19, from Bow, had denied murdering the pair over a £15 debt. |
| Shannon Vickers and Pauline Adams, 57, were asleep when petrol was poured through the letterbox of their flat in Mile End in February and set alight. | Shannon Vickers and Pauline Adams, 57, were asleep when petrol was poured through the letterbox of their flat in Mile End in February and set alight. |
| Sheehan and Philip were both jailed for a minimum of 25 years. | |
| The home Shannon and her grandmother shared, on the fifth floor of Malmesbury House in Cyprus Street, Bethnal Green, was set alight after Philip and Sheehan had a row with another youth who lived there over a £15 debt. | |
| At the end of the row Philip had shouted "we are going to burn your house down" - and went on to carry out his threat. | |
| But only Shannen and her grandmother were in the fifth floor flat that night in February. | |
| They died as a result of smoke inhalation, post-mortem tests found. Their pet cat and dog also died. |