Jennings (left) and Snowden
Two men who murdered a father and his two children in a blaze at the family home have been jailed for life.
Scott Snowden, 38, will serve at least 33 years in prison for ordering the fire that killed three members of the Sharkey family.
His henchman Robert Jennings, 50, who set the lethal blaze, was sentenced to a minimum of 29 years.
The pair were yesterday convicted of the triple murder after an 11-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
Thomas Sharkey, 21, and his eight-year-old sister Bridget died when the blaze engulfed their home in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, on July 24, 2011.
Their father Thomas Sharkey Snr, 55, died in hospital six days later while mother Angela, 48, survived.
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