Woman, 37, charged with two counts of attempted murder of girls in Chadstone house fire
A 37-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder over a Chadstone house fire which left two primary school age girls fighting for life in May.
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A woman has been charged with attempted murder over a Chadstone house fire which left two primary school age girls fighting for life in May.
Police arrested a 37-year-old Chadstone woman on Thursday morning and she has since been charged with two counts of attempted murder.
The charges relate to a suspicious fire which tore through a two storey home on Terrigal St in Chadstone on May 21.
A 37-year-old woman and two girls aged seven and eight were pulled from the raging inferno and taken to hospital with life threatening injuries.
Detectives were perplexed by the cause of the fire which is believed to have triggered the explosion of a gas cylinder within the home.
The house’s fourth resident, a 36-year-old man who was not present at the time of the fire, was questioned by police but not deemed a suspect.
The woman will appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
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