A man has been jailed for a minimum of 30 years for murdering three generations of a family in a fire, including his six-month old baby on her first night home from hospital. Kim Buckley, 46, her daughter Kayleigh, 17, and granddaughter Kimberley died in the blaze in Cwmbran last September. Carl Mills, 28, was said to be “incredibly controlling and jealous”. The judge told Mills he condemned the family to “an agonising death – you have shown no remorse”. Mr Justice Wyn Williams said there was no guarantee Mills would ever be released and praised the family for its “dignity”. More than 20 relatives attended court to hear the verdicts read out. After Mills was sentenced, they released three white doves and balloons on the steps of the court in memory of the three victims. The court had previously heard Mills started the fire because he wrongly believed another man was in the house. He had sent a barrage of abusive texts to Kayleigh in the hours and days leading to the blaze in which he repeatedly threatened to murder her, their baby and burn down the house. Image caption Carl Mills repeatedly made threats by text to burn down Kayleigh’s home In the early hours of 18 September last year, Mills, originally from Manchester, set fire to a recycling bin in the porch of the family’s house at 15 Tillsland on the Coed Eva estate. Kimberley, who had been born 15 weeks prematurely and was blind and deaf,…more detail
