Angry reaction to Frederick King’s sentence for lighting fatal South Taranaki fire 20 years ago

The memory of a distressed mother crying out “please, God, not my son” as she lay on the floor continues to haunt a grieving family 20 years after Michael Paul Slade’s tragic death in a house bus fire. His younger sister, Nikita Burnard, vividly recalls the night she returned home to find police at their door, delivering the devastating news that Slade, a 27-year-old labourer living in Manaia, South Taranaki, had perished. The lasting impact of this loss remains deeply felt within the family.

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