http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/mers ... 400166.stmA man who killed a three-year-old girl by setting fire to her family home in a revenge attack has been convicted of murder.
Francesca Bimpson was unable to escape the flames and suffered massive burns, Liverpool Crown Court was told.
Graham Heaps, 44, started the fire because he was bitter at the break-up of his relationship with her aunt.
Heaps, of Woodside Terrace, Crumlin, south Wales, had denied murder. He will be sentenced on Tuesday.
Heaps poured petrol though the letterbox of the house in the Everton area of the city just before Christmas 2008.
Francesca was unable to escape the ensuing fire and suffered 85% burns. She died three weeks later in hospital.
The jury of seven men and five women took two-and-a-half hours to reach their unanimous guilty verdict.
The verdict was greeted by cheers and, as Heaps was sent down, Francesca's mother, Eleanor Skelhorne, became distraught.
She shouted at him: "That's wiped the smile off your face, hasn't it?"
I just heard this on the news, it's horrible. I wonder how the mother is feeling right now, considering it was her sister's ex boyfriend who did this, nothing to do with her.
