'I lay next to my murdered son on his hospital bed and made him a promise'

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A woman has shared the harrowing experience in which she lay next to her murdered son in a hospital bed after a horrific incident. ‌

Claire Throssell's sons , Jack, 12, and his nine-year-old brother, Paul, died after her ex-husband, Darren Sykes, lured them to the attic of the family home in Penistone, near Sheffield, and set fire to the house. ‌

Their dad died in the inferno but not before ensuring his sons wouldn’t survive, after starting 14 separate fires around the house in October 2014. ‌

The 53-year-old had repeatedly warned social workers, the courts, and Cafcas – whose role is to represent the interests of children and young people in the family courts – that her abusive ex was capable of murder. Yet he was granted unsupervised access to hi