Overview
- At Liverpool Crown Court, Kevin Weetman received life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years for two counts of manslaughter, with the judge calling him extremely dangerous.
- Kylie Maynard was jailed for 23 years and Lee Owens was sentenced to 13 years and six months for manslaughter, after a jury cleared all three of murder earlier in the week.
- Weetman and Maynard also received concurrent sentences for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, 16 years and eight years respectively.
- The fire on July 15, 2025, was ordered as punishment after George Jackson refused to sell drugs, killing uninvolved residents Sheila Jackson, 83, and Eric Greener, 77.
- Investigators linked the group through travel footage, call records, and witnesses; Paul Smith, who helped set the fire and later confessed to a friend, died a week after the blaze as inquiries into his death continue.