Adeel Khan arrested, facing murder charges over Rozelle explosion

A MAN has been charged with murder over the deaths of three people following a horrific convenience store fire and explosion earlier this month.

A MAN has been charged with murder over the deaths of three people following the horrific shop fire and explosion at Rozelle earlier this month.

Adeel Khan, the convenience shop owner, has been charged with three counts of murder; two counts of attempted murder; three counts of manslaughter; as well as 17 charges relating to the damage of property, including one count of setting fire for a financial gain.

The 44-year-old from Greenacre is in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital with injuries he sustained from the fire and a bedside court hearing was held today.

He has been remanded in custody to appear at Central Local Court on October 21.

Rozelle convenience store owner Adeel Khan was arrested from his hospital bed this morning.

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Wreckage from the Darling St fire.

Mr Khan has been in hospital in a serious condition since sustaining serious, but non-life-threatening injuries in the September 4 blaze that police will allege he started deliberately.

Emergency services were called to the Darling Street store at about 4am on that Thursday, where they found the building well alight.

The disaster killed three people who lived in the apartments above the store: Bianka O’Brien, 31, her one-year-old son Jude, and Chris Noble, 27.

Another three people were injured.

The blaze killed Bianka O'Brien and her one-year-old son, Jude.

Mr Khan was pulled from the rubble where he was found pinned underneath a commercial fridge with only his hand sticking out, authorities said at the time.

It was unclear as to why he was in the store at that time of the morning.

Mr Khan’s wife Naima has been by his side and maintained his innocence throughout the ordeal.

“Just because he is a survivor doesn’t mean he has done anything wrong,” she told Nine News.

Bianka O’Brien, 31, and her baby son Jude are farewelled at St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Rozelle.

More to come