Mum spent her last months crying herself to sleep after arson attack killed her kids
Michelle Pearson, died in hospital 20 months after Zak Bolland and David Worrall petrol bombed her home. A senseless attack which had already taken four of her kid s lives.
Michelle Pearson died after 20 months in hospital trying to recover from a fire that had already killed four of her children (Image: MEN Media)
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RECAP Michelle Pearson trial: Killers sentenced over Walkden fire that left four children dead
Zak Bolland and David Worrall have been found guilty of murder twice, at two separate trials
Three people are in court over the death of Michelle Pearson (Image: Pearson family)
Three people have been sentenced after a petrol bomb attack led to the deaths of a mother and four of her children.
Zak Bolland, 26, David Worrall, 29, and Courtney Brierley, 23, appeared at Manchester Crown Court this morning (April 21)
They threw petrol bombs into the Pearson family home in Jackson Street, Walkden, Salford, in the early hours of December 11, 2017.
By Press Association 2021
Michelle Pearson funeral order of service
Two convicted child killers have been given extra jail time after being found guilty of the murder of a woman who died 20 months after the same arson attack killed four of her children.
Zak Bolland, 26, and David Worrall, 28, were both jailed for 40 years and 37 years on Wednesday for the murder of Michelle Pearson, 37, following a trial at Manchester Crown Court.
The pair were already serving four life sentences with a minimum of 40 years for Bolland and 37 years for Worrall for the murders of her four children following a trial in 2018.
They had denied the murder of Mrs Pearson, claiming they had been wrongly convicted of murdering her children.
TWO men convicted of murdering tragic Walkden mum Michelle Pearson have been given increased prison sentences three years after they were also found guilty of killing her four children in a horrific petrol bomb attack. In May 2018 Zak Bolland and David Worrall were each sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term behind bars of 40 years for Bolland and 37 years for Worrall for murdering the four children. But last month they were also found guilty of murdering the mum, Michelle Pearson and Mrs Justice McGowan has now decided that the minimum term periods will start again from today, meaning that, by the time they can apply for release, they will have spent almost three years extra in prison.
Monsters jailed for petrol bomb attack that left mum and four children dead
The cowardly 5am petrol bomb attack on a family home trapped Michelle Pearson and four of her children in their bedrooms as smoke and flames filled the house
Michelle Pearson, the children s mother, died of a broken heart’ say her family (Image: PA)
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