Daniel Allen waited for police to arrive at his front door, as his rented bungalow burned down with three generations of the same family, which also included a baby lying dead inside its damaged wall.
The quadruple killer had to be pulled aside by people trying in vain to fight the fire and save the four people inside on a day in February 2018 that Derrylin in Northern Ireland will never forget.
Before looking for a police officer to ask who was going to arrest him, he stared at the door, seemingly uninterested in the fire burning behind him. “I'm sorry… I started the fire. A promise is a promise. I promised to take them to the afterlife because they didn't want to stay here anymore,” he was heard saying.
Allen immediately began claiming that he started the fire as part of a suicide pact with his partner Denise Gossett, who was handcuffed to a bed while remaining unharmed outside, despite the chaos at the scene. Her daughter Sabrina, 19, her son Roman, 16, and Sabrina's daughter Morgana Quinn, 15 months, were also inside the burning building with her.
Neighbor Maureen McGerty was washing dishes after breakfast as she watched the tragedy unfold from her kitchen window.
“I don't believe that nonsense. [story] of a suicide pact. “I should have given him the electric chair,” he said. online mail.
And he added: “It is difficult to assimilate the idea that an entire family was annihilated. “I didn't know them, not many here knew them.”
