THE MOTHER of two young boys who were killed in a house fire started by their father has been named a Red magazine ‘woman of the year’ for her dedicated campaigning for child safety.
Claire Throssell, 44, has won the ‘difference maker’ award following a public vote, for her work on the Child First campaign with Women’s Aid to get laws changed in family courts.
Claire’s sons Jack and Paul, 12 and nine, died following the fire at the former family home on Tennyson Close, Penistone, in 2014.
It was deliberately started by their father Darren Sykes who had lured them to the attic using a new train set as pools of petrol burned below. He also died.
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