Fatoumatta Hydara died two days after her daughters Naeemah Drammeh and Fatimah Drammeh
A man who started a fire that killed his neighbour and her two children has admitted three charges of manslaughter.
One-year-old Naeemah Drammeh and Fatimah Drammeh, aged three, died in hospital after the blaze in Fairisle Close, Clifton, Nottingham, on 20 November.
Their mother, 28-year-old Fatoumatta Hydara, died two days later.
Jamie Barrow, of Fairisle Close, admitted the charges when he appeared at Nottingham Crown Court.
He was also charged with three counts of murder but has pleaded not guilty to these, and is due to stand trial at the same court on 12 June.
The 31-year-old also pleaded not guilty to one count of arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.
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Jamie Barrow has admitted manslaughter but denies murder
An inquest opened in December and heard the victims died from smoke inhalation.
Ms Hydara’s husband, Aboubacarr Drammeh, was in the US at the time of the fire.
Mr Drammeh was planning to move his family to Minnesota, where he works as a biomedical technologist.
He previously said he would never get over spending his 40th birthday, in November, in a hospital mortuary, adding “that was just so hard”.
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Aboubacarr Drammeh and Fatoumatta Hydara, originally from Gambia, married in 2014
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