Grieving family returns to blaze home

A family devastated by the deaths of their four children in a fire returned to the south London scene to pay their respects.

Kelvin Olebar, 19, and his father, Rupert, visited the Deptford Wharf estate last night as friends and neighbours laid flowers outside the modern council house swept by fire on Friday.

Investigators are still searching for the cause of the blaze in which four children died.

Two brothers and two sisters were rescued by fire crews but died from smoke inhalation in Guy's Hospital.

Investigators believe April Olebar, 15, was trying to rescue her brothers Tree Amos, eight, Casey Amos, 18 months, and sister Verinya Payne, nine, but was unable to escape.

Mother of six Paulette Olebar, 41, escaped but had to be restrained by her eldest son Kelvin as firefighters tried to rescue the children.

Police and fire crews are treating the blaze as suspicious. One theory was that a candle may have started the fire.