Three men who killed five people by causing an explosion at a shop in Leicester, England have been jailed for life.

They used petrol to blow up the failing Polish supermarket in an insurance scam last February.

Aram Kurd (34) and Arkan Ali (37) have been given a minimum of 38 years behind bars, while Hawkar Hassan (33) will serve at least 33.

Last month, they were found guilty of the murder of five people in the shop explosion.

Their trial heard they caused the blast by dousing the shop basement in petrol.

The trial at Leicester Crown Court also heard that Ali's girlfriend, Viktorija Ijevleva, who worked in the shop, was left to die in the blaze because she had been in on the plot and "knew too much".

"In other words, the devastation that they caused was carried out with the intention to kill," prosecutor David Herbert told the trial.

Ms Ijevleva and Mary Ragoobeer, 46, her teenage sons Shane and Sean, and 18-year-old Leah Beth Reek, who was Shane's girlfriend, were all killed in the blast in February.

The Ragoobeer family lived in the flat above the shop which was completely destroyed.

Mrs Ragoobeer's husband Jose was out at work at the time of the explosion. Their third son survived after he was rescued from the rubble.

The trial heard that the explosion was so loud that people nearby thought a bomb had gone off.

Detective Chief Inspector Michelle Keen said the men were "callous" and "motivated by money and greed".

She said: "The level of planning carried out prior to the explosion show they had no regard for human life - they only had one thing in mind, and that was to get their hands on the money from the insurance claim."