The jury in the trial of Fiaz Munshi has begun its deliberations.

Munshi, 38, denies murdering a two children in an arson attack at a family home in Magdalen Road, East Oxford, in 1997. Anum Khan, eight, and her brother Majid, 15, died after the fire in August of that year.

The trial is now into its seventh week and jurors were sent out early yesterday afternoon after Justice Robin Spencer finished summing up the case.

They will continue deliberating today.

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