Teenage girl died after bed was set alight with lighter, inquest hears - Layla Allen was asleep when a fire engulfed her bunk ...

Layla Allen, 13, died after a fire broke out in her bedroom on April 2 last year ...

A 13-year-old schoolgirl died in her bed when her house was engulfed in a flames – the second suspicious fire to hit the family home in under a year. Layla Allen was declared dead at the scene of the ...

Layla Allen, a Year 8 pupil at St Edmund Arrowsmith School in Whiston, was killed when the fire broke out at her Prescot home on April 2 last year ...

A 13-year-old girl died after a ferocious fire engulfed her bunk bed as she slept. Layla Allen, a Year 8 pupil at St Edmund Arrowsmith School in Whiston, near Liverpool, was killed when the blaze ...

Layla Allen died when a fire broke out at her home in Prescot, Merseyside in April last year ...

A coroner said there were 'unanswered questions' about the events leading up to the death of schoolgirl Layla Allen ...

The fatal incident came just six months after firefighters had been called to family home to reports of another fire ...

Investigators now believe the blaze that killed Layla Allen in April 2025 may have been set intentionally using a lighter ...

Just months after a terrifying blaze at the Merseyside home, Layla Allen, 13 died during a second fire at the property, after the adults refused a fire safety course ...

A schoolgirl was burned to death while asleep on her bunk bed after it was 'set on fire with a cigarette lighter', an inquest heard. Layla Allen, 13, died after the blaze ripped through her family ...

The fatal incident came just six months after firefighters had been called to family home to reports of another fire ...