The house on Unthank Road where Vera Croghan lived. Picture: Danielle Booden
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Police were called to a late-night argument at the home of an 89-year-old academic - hours before her body was found in the burnt-out house.
Shortly after midnight on Friday, December 11, Norfolk Constabulary received a report of a row at the Unthank Road home of 89-year-old Vera Croghan.
Officers attended the scene but found that no offences had been committed.
Hours later, at around 6.40am, emergency services were called to the scene of a house fire, with Mrs Croghan s body found inside as firefighters tackled the blaze.
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10:51 EDT, 14 December 2020
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Police investigated reports of an argument at the home of a retired Swedish academic seven hours before she was found dead in a suspected arson attack, it emerged today.
Vera Croghan, 89, was found dead just before 7am on Friday by firefighters called to a blaze at her £750,000 semi-detached home in Unthank Road, Norwich, Norfolk.
A male teenager who was known to her was later arrested and taken to the Police Investigation Centre at Wymondham near Norwich.
He has now been detained under the Mental Health Act and remains under investigation while police carry out further inquiries into Mrs Croghan s death.
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