Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city Lying in agony in a hospital bed, Michelle Pearson cried herself to sleep most nights.
In the end, the pain was too much. After more than a year-and-a-half clinging on, she 'lost any desire to go on living'. She wanted to be reunited with her babies in heaven.
For a family scrambling for some semblance of comfort, the thought of Michelle being back with her children - free from suffering - provided a modicum of solace.
But watching her misery in her final days crushed them. Today, they relived that torture. The tragic story of a mother and her four children killed in a fire bomb attack shook Greater Manchester.
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