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| Man guilty of house fire deaths | Man guilty of house fire deaths |
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| A father has been convicted of the manslaughter of his son and two teenage stepchildren in a house fire he started after an angry row with his wife. | A father has been convicted of the manslaughter of his son and two teenage stepchildren in a house fire he started after an angry row with his wife. |
| Kevin Hargreaves, 38, poured petrol over himself and lit it - setting the house in Openshaw, Manchester, ablaze. | |
| His eight-year-old son John, his stepson Jordan, 14, and stepdaughter Carly, 19, all died. | |
| A jury at Manchester Crown Court cleared him of murder on the basis that he only wanted to kill himself. | A jury at Manchester Crown Court cleared him of murder on the basis that he only wanted to kill himself. |
| The couple married in 2003 but never lived together because of their volatile, alcohol-driven relationship. | |
| 'Drunken row' | |
| The couple spent the day drinking on 15 July and returned to Mrs Owen's home in Herne Street. | |
| They had rowed in a taxi because Hargreaves thought Mrs Owen was flirting with the driver. | |
| After an argument in the house, he punched her in the face before running upstairs and pouring the petrol over himself in the bedroom. | |
| "I had had enough of life," Hargreaves told the jury, who later said he still loved his wife "to bits". | |
| Hargreaves, of no fixed abode, had denied three counts of murder. |