A 23-year-old man has been charged with murder following a fatal house fire in which a woman and her seven-year-old niece died.<\/p>\n
Natalie McDonald, 34, died in the blaze in Grangetown, near Middlesbrough, in the early hours of 26 August, along with Valentina Foster.<\/p>\n
Jaden Wright has been charged with two counts of murder as well as multiple grievous bodily harm offences, Cleveland Police said.<\/p>\n
Wright, of no fixed address, will appear at Teesside Magistrates’ Court later.<\/p>\n
Senior investigating officer Katie Smith from Northumbria Police said: “This has been a truly tragic incident, and my thoughts remain with the families of all those involved.<\/p>\n
“I would like to thank local residents for their support and patience during this complex investigation.”<\/p>\n
Anyone with information has been asked to contact Cleveland Police.<\/p>\n
Katie Nicolson from Crown Prosecution Service North East said: “Our prosecutors have worked closely with Cleveland Police to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring this case to court.<\/p>\n
“We remind all concerned that proceedings against the defendant are active and he has the right to a fair trial. <\/p>\n
“It is vital that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information which could in anyway prejudice these proceedings.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old man has been charged with murder following a fatal house fire in which a woman and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-756416","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\/756416","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=756416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}