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Claire Throssell Speaks on This Morning, Presses for Family-Court Reform After Sons' 2014 Deaths

Her interview spotlighted a survivor-led push to reform family-court contact rules to better protect children.

Overview

  • Throssell recounted on ITV's This Morning that her ex-husband set their home alight in 2014, killing sons Jack, 12, and Paul, 9, before dying himself.
  • She said she had warned the courts that he posed a danger to the children but that her concerns were not acted upon.
  • Detailing the attack, she described multiple fires started with her possessions and said he lured the boys to the attic and barricaded them inside.
  • Since 2016 she has campaigned as an ambassador for Women's Aid and IDAS, backing measures such as banning perpetrator cross-examination and improving judicial training on domestic abuse.
  • She highlighted her forthcoming memoir For My Boys, due for release on 22 October, as a testimony to her sons and a call for child-safety reforms.