Jamie Barrow has been charged with three counts of murder following the deaths
A mother and two young children who died in a flat fire in Nottingham were set for a new life in America before they were killed, the children's father has said.
Aboubacarr Drammeh was securing visas for his wife and their two young daughters so they could join him in Minnesota, where he works as a biomedical technologist. But tragedy unfolded when 28-year-old Fatoumatta Hydara and her daughters Fatimah, aged three, and one-year-old NaeemahMr Drammeh described the past week as the hardest of his life and said he will never get over spending his 40th birthday in the hospital mortuary.
In a statement released by police, he said:"The plan was to move Fatoumatta and the kids to America so we could all live together. "We had an interview booked for November 29 and that would have been the final interview before we would hopefully have secured their visas.
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