Mr Power said the case has raised unsettling questions about the “pernicious and perilous” road taken by drug dealers and said: “We have seen that the underbelly of society that deals in drugs is a murky world indeed.” He said police had ruled out a man named Gregory Beeden, who ran Drink Stop in Hastings, despite the fact Mr Beeden’s DNA was apparently also on the cigarette lighter found at the scene. Mr Power pointed the finger at Mr Beeden, and suggested he could well have been in the dock himself for the murders, claiming he used the drinks delivery business as a front for class A drug dealing.
Trial starts over death of Eastbourne mum and her son in fatal blaze
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Eastbourne fire: Mum and son, 4, killed in drugs-debt house blaze
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1/1 A THIRD man has been charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with a house fire that left a mum and her young son dead. Police extradited suspect Jake Barnard from Portugal over the tragedy in Croxden Way, Eastbourne in July 2018. Gina Ingles, 34, and her four-year-old son Milo Ingles-Bailey died in the fire, while Gina’s partner Tony Jarrett was seriously injured as he escaped the blaze. Flames engulfed the property in the residential street. The roof of the two-storey house has been burnt through, and neighbours said the stairs inside have been destroyed. One onlooker said they saw the bathroom window shatter and flames burst through, setting fire to a nearby tree.