Police search boys' blaze house
Sunday, 05 Oct 2008 16:01
Investigators have begun searching a house in which two young boys died yesterday
Investigators have begun searching a house in East Sussex in which two young brothers died in a blaze yesterday.
The boys, five and seven, were found by firefighters at the terraced home in Milfoil Drive, Eastbourne.
Their mother, who has been named by neighbours as Denise Goldsmith, 29, wept as she went to the scene to lay flowers on Sunday.
She did not comment on the deaths of the boys, named locally as Taylor and Lewis, and had to be restrained by her family from entering the house.
Ms Goldsmith was treated in hospital for minor burns after the fire and released later the same day.
Floral tributes have been left at the house
Speaking outside the house today, cheif insp Dick Coates said: "We have a team of detectives working on it, but at the present time there is nothing overly suspicious about the cause of the fire.
"Initial indications do not suggest anything other than this being a tragic accident."
He said officers would be at the scene for several days, and that police would have a clearer idea how the fire had started by Monday or Tuesday.
Post-mortem examinations on the boys have yet to be carried out.