LEEDS, July 30: A British court handed a man eight life sentences on Wednesday and jailed two others for 18 years each for an arson attack on a home that killed three generations of a family from Pakistan.

Shaied Iqbal, 26, was given the multiple jail terms at the Leeds Crown Court, in northern England, after being found guilty last week of murdering eight members of the Chishti family, including a six-month-old girl.

Five young sisters along with their mother, uncle and grandmother died when a blaze caused by a grudge fire bomb attack swept through their house in Huddersfield, northern England, on May 12 last year.

Judge Andrew Smith said that other members of the Chishti family saw and heard their loved ones suffering in the fire.

“No decent person who heard their evidence would ever forget it,” he added.—AFP