{"id":749652,"date":"2026-08-25T21:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749652\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:56:10","slug":"second-man-charged-with-murder-after-hounslow-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749652\/","title":{"rendered":"Second man charged with murder after Hounslow house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A second man has been charged with murder following a fatal house fire in west London last week, the Metropolitan Police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services were called to the property on Berkeley Avenue in Hounslow at about 01:15 BST on 19 August following reports of a fire. Nine people were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anna Kowalska, 50, died in hospital, and a 40-year-old woman remains in hospital in a life-threatening condition. The remaining seven people &#8211; six men and one woman &#8211; have since been discharged after receiving treatment for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Slawomir Alama, 41, of Bath Road, Hounslow, has been charged with murder and eight counts of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also been charged with arson with intent to endanger life, possession of a class B drug, and possession of a knife in a public place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second man has been charged with murder following a fatal house fire in west London last week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}