Don't miss out on the big stories from Manchester's courts with our weekly newsletter A terrified little girl told her gran "daddy is scaring me" just hours before she died in a tragic house fire.
Paige Bolton, 10, was found lying alongside her dad Garry Bolton in a bathtub in their home in north Hull on January 25 last year.
The pair died in a house fire, believed to have been set alight deliberately. An inquest into their deaths at Hull Coroner’s Court this week heard that Garry’s mental health had deteriorated after suffering from anxiety, low self-esteem and paranoia, Hull Live reports.
The inquest heard how Paige had sent desperate text messages to her grandmother, Garry’s mum Patricia Bolton, which said: “Daddy is scaring me.
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