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- May 24, 2018
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An eight-year-old boy died after a severe fire caused by a pumpkin candle swept through his home, an inquest found.
Lucas Carter was asleep upstairs when the flicker from two tealights inside the Halloween lantern caught the living room curtains on October 30, 2016.
With minutes, the flames engulfed the whole lounge and then spread to the hall of the house in Platt Avenue in Sandbach, Cheshire.
His mother Kelly Carter, 35, was so distraught she killed herself just two weeks later because she couldn't forgive herself for being unable to save him.
Lucas Carter was asleep upstairs when the flicker from two tealights inside the Halloween lantern caught the living room curtains on October 30, 2016.
With minutes, the flames engulfed the whole lounge and then spread to the hall of the house in Platt Avenue in Sandbach, Cheshire.
His mother Kelly Carter, 35, was so distraught she killed herself just two weeks later because she couldn't forgive herself for being unable to save him.