A woman who was jailed for 13 years for killing two children in an arson attack has had an appeal bid to cut her sentence thrown out.
Fiaz Begum Munshi, 39, travelled with seven others from Stevenage to Amjad Khan's house in Magdalen Road, Oxford, in August 1997.
Petrol was squirted through the letterbox of the family home and Mr Khan's young brother, Majid, 15, and sister Anum, eight, died in the blaze.
Five men were handed life sentences for the murders in 1998 and, a year later, Munshi's sister, Riaz, was convicted of manslaughter.
Munshi, of Manley Road, Oldham, Lancs, was convicted of manslaughter in July last year and sentenced to 13 years in jail.
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Yesterday her barrister, Stephen Cavendish QC, asked three judges at London's Criminal Appeal Court to cut her sentence, arguing the delay in her being tried and sentenced was not her fault and ought to have counted in her favour.
Lord Justice Pitchford dismissed her complaints and refused the application for appeal.
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