Two men convicted of starting a house in fire in Leciester in Britain that killed a mother and three children have been jailed for life.

Tristan Richards (22) and Kemo Porter (19) were given minimum terms of 35 years and 25 years respectively after setting the house alight in a bungled revenge attack.

Richards and Porter were convicted at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday after their trial revealed their "misguided and impulsive" arson attack was intended to avenge the fatal stabbing one of their friends, Antoin Akpom (20), hours earlier.

But the pair mistakenly set fire to the wrong house and Shehnila Taufiq, who was in her 40s, her daughter Zainab (19) and sons Bilal (17) and Jamal (15) all died as the blaze ripped through the house in Wood Hill on September 13th last year.

Shehnila's husband and the children's father, Dr. Muhammad Taufiq al-Sattar, worked as a neurosugeon at a Dublin hospital and was in Ireland at the time of the fire.

The Taufiq family, originally from Pakistan, had a home in Ireland for at least 15 years before the children moved to the UK with their mother about five years ago for an Islamic education.

After their deaths, Dr. al-Sattar said he would "deeply miss" his "beautiful" wife, daughter and two teenage sons.

On Monday, Shaun Carter (24) was found not guilty of four counts of murder over the blaze, but guilty of four counts of manslaughter.

Nathaniel Mullings (19), Jackson Powell (20), Aaron Webb (20), Aaron Jeffers (21) and Cairo Parker (17) were all also cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter and are expected to be sentenced later today.

When the verdict for the 17-year-old was read out there had been tears from the public gallery and cries of "he's only a baby!".

The trial against all eight defendants heard how they had intended to attack the house of another man they believed was involved in the death of Mr. Akpom.

But they got the address wrong and instead poured petrol through the letterbox of the Taufiq family and set it alight.