An eight-year-old boy died after a severe fire caused by a pumpkin candle swept through his home, an inquest found.
Lucas Carter was asleep upstairs when the flicker from two tealights inside the Halloween lantern caught the living room curtains on October 30, 2016,Mailonline reports.
With minutes, the flames engulfed the whole lounge and then spread to the hall of the house in Platt Avenue in Sandbach, Cheshire.
His mother Kelly Carter, 35, was so distraught she killed herself just two weeks later because she couldn’t forgive herself for being unable to save him.
A separate inquest into her suicide last year heard she drank brandy then hanged herself at the home of boyfriend Andrew Hough whilst he was asleep in bed.
‘She couldn’t forgive herself and didn’t want to be here without him. He was her world, he was her best,’ her best friend Sarah Blakey told the inquest.
‘To her he was her greatest achievement and he was an absolute credit, a lovely little boy.’
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