Two men have been found guilty of murdering a mother and her three teenage children in a house fire in the UK.

Shehnila Taufiq (47) was the wife of Irish-based doctor Muhammad Taufiq Al-Sattar. She died along with her daughter and two sons in the blaze last September.

Dr. Al-Sattar works for Beaumont and Temple Street Children's Hospital.

Over 7,000 people attended prayers for Shehnila, her sons Bilal (17) and Jamil (15) and daughter Zainab (19) in Leicester last October.

Their bodies were discovered in the upstairs bedrooms of their home on Wood Hill in the Spinney Hills area of the city on September 13th last year. The four of them were buried in Dublin.

The Taufiq family, originally from Pakistan, had a home in Ireland for at least 15 years before the children moved to the UK with their mother about six years ago for an Islamic education.

"They simply got the wrong house"

Prosecutors had said the blaze was a "retribution process" for the fatal stabbing of Antoin Akpom (20) hours earlier, but that the killers attacked the wrong house.

Kemo Porter (19) and Tristan Richards (22) were found guilty of their murders at Nottingham Crown Court.

Shaun Carter (24) was found not guilty of four counts of murder but guilty of four counts of manslaughter.

The jury is still considering charges of murder against Nathaniel Mullings (19), Jackson Powell (20), Aaron Webb (20), Aaron Jeffers (21) and a 17-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons.

During the two-month trial, the jury heard football coach Mr. Akpom had been stabbed in the back in a confrontation involving two 19-year-olds on September 12th.

Richard Latham QC, prosecuting, said the defendants were friends of Mr. Akpom that they mistakenly targeted the Taufiqs' house, in the belief it was home to one of those involved in the confrontation.

The prosecutor said "They simply got the wrong house - a tragedy".