Thursday, 23 August 2007, 14:05 GMT 15:05 UK
Murderer's love letters unearthed
Police have found ripped up love letters dumped by a man who murdered his girlfriend and three other people.
Mark Goldstraw used petrol to blow up the home in revenge after he was dumped by girlfriend Samantha Carter, 16.
Her sister Patricia, 10, their brother Marcus, seven, and their mother's partner Roddy Hine also died at the house in Cheddleton, Staffordshire.
Police said the love letters found were from Goldstraw, 32, to Samantha. He was jailed for life in November 2006.
Officers said the letters, which were found in woodlands between Cheddleton and Ipstones in the Staffordshire Moorlands, were written by Goldstraw begging Samantha to take him back.
The court heard then how he was on licence after being released early from a jail term for the manslaughter of a previous girlfriend.
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