Scene of the fatal house fire in Wood Hill, Leicester (Picture: PA)

Two young men were found guilty of murdering a mother and her three children in a bungled revenge attack.

Kemo Porter, 19, and 22-year-old Tristan Richards set fire to a house in retribution for the fatal stabbing of a friend. But they targeted the wrong house and mother Shehnila Taufiq, 47, her 19-year-old daughter Zainab, and sons Bilal, 17, and Jamal, 15, died.

Senior investigating officer Det Supt Kate Meynall said: ‘Emotions were running high, their actions on that night, in my opinion, were both misguided and impulsive and obviously had tragic consequences.

‘They went to the address to try and avenge the attack and tragically they got the wrong address.’


Kemo Porter (Picture: PA)

Tristan Richards (PIcture: PA)

Seven hours before the fire, football coach Antoin Akpom, 20, had been killed. The Taufiq home in Wood Hill, Leicester, was mistakenly identified as being where one of the two teenagers believed responsible lived.



Six other men were convicted of killing the Taufiq family in September last year. As the guilty verdict on the youngest, 17-year-old Cairo Parker, was read out there was a cry of ‘he’s only a baby!’ from the public gallery. Shaun Carter, 24, Nathaniel Mullings, 19, Jackson Powell, 20, Aaron Webb, 20, and Akeem Jeffers, 21, were all found guilty of manslaughter. The judge at Nottingham crown court, Mr

Justice John Griffith Williams, will hear mitigation today before sentencing tomorrow.