Man whose wife and two young daughters were murdered when neighbour poured petrol through their letterbox says killer's reduced prison sentence is racist

A begetter whose full household died successful an arson onslaught has claimed that it is 'racist' to shorten the killers sentence.  

Aboubacarr Drammeh, 41, mislaid his wife, Fatoumatta Hydara, 28, and their 2 daughters Fatimah and Naeemah, aged 3 and one, to a occurrence started by their neighbour Jamie Barrow successful November 2022.

Barrow poured petrol done the family's letterbox and past stood extracurricular the location successful Fairisle Close, Clifton, Nottingham, to ticker the occurrence instrumentality hold, aft holding what prosecutors described arsenic a 'grievance' implicit rubbish being near successful an alleyway. 

He was initially jailed for beingness with a minimum of 44 years successful July past year, nevertheless past period an entreaty reduced that down to 38 years aft the archetypal condemnation was described as 'manifestly excessive successful the circumstances of this case'.

The entreaty besides claimed to instrumentality into relationship the intelligence wellness of Barrow arsenic a origin successful reducing his sentence. 

However, Drammeh believed his household was straight targeted due to the fact that they lived by a antithetic religion and were a antithetic contention to Barrow. 

Barrow shared a YouTube video connected Facebook successful 2017 that called for 'lawful rebellion' against those practising sharia and describing the far-right activistic Tommy Robinson arsenic a 'modern-day hero'.

Speaking to the Times Drammeh said: 'I consciousness disappointed successful the UK justness system. I started to deliberation astir what this would person ended similar if this was a antithetic household who were killed, if our positions were flipped. If determination was a achromatic feline doing this.

'I didn't truly deliberation astir systemic racism successful the UK earlier but I don't cognize however other those judges could travel to the decision and picture the condemnation arsenic excessive. 

'He took distant 3 guiltless souls. I consciousness similar I americium the 1 serving the beingness sentence.'

The mates moved to the UK a decennary agone to commencement their family. Drammeh worked successful the healthcare manufacture successful the US, wherever they planned to determination the pursuing year. 

Drammeh was besides distant connected concern connected the nighttime of the fire, which helium said was purposeful: 'He chose a nighttime erstwhile they were alone, unprotected, sleeping. He was a coward.'

He continued: 'I wanted an accidental to truly cognize the existent crushed wherefore helium did what helium did. I don't judge a connection helium said. I bash deliberation determination was an evil plan, and I don't deliberation I volition ever heal from it.

'[My wife] whitethorn person had antithetic religion and ate antithetic foods and enjoyed antithetic things to [Barrow] but astatine the extremity of the day, we led a precise akin life. He had a child, helium shopped successful the aforesaid stores.

'I americium present irreparable. The level of symptom I cannot grade. I don't adjacent cognize wherefore I americium going to enactment immoderate more. I inactive person a container of their things, I person Fatoumatta's phone, I can't adjacent unlock it.

'There is an bare void successful maine that tin ne'er beryllium filled.

'I would similar to usage this symptom to assistance others. I told UK constabulary officials I americium much than blessed to stock my acquisition oregon to link with akin groups. People who unluckily whitethorn person immoderate benignant of an acquisition similar this. 

'I conscionable don't privation different household to suffer. I cannot ideate different household experiencing this.'

After their deaths, Fatoumatta's hubby Aboubacarr Drammeh, 40, paid tribute to his loved ones and described their deaths arsenic inconceivable.

Mr Drammeh, who flew backmost from the US aft the fire, said astatine the time: 'It is with large sadness that we person mislaid Fatoumatta and our 2 daughters successful specified a tragic way.

'Fatoumatta had lived a abbreviated but a precise beauteous and fulfilling life.

'A erstwhile voluntary worker, Fatoumatta was a precise happy, bubbly pistillate who wouldn't person the bosom to wounded a fly.

'I and my in-laws are near without immoderate daughters, grandchildren and nieces. I volition profoundly miss my family.'