Woman, 46, is charged with MURDER and arson over a raging house fire that killed a beautiful young couple and their 19-day-old newborn daughter
- Victoria police has laid charges over a fatal housefire in Melbourne's south-west
- A young couple and newborn baby were killed in the blaze at Point Cook
- Forty firefighters battled the fire for an hour on Wednesday at about 3.40am
- Abbey Forrest, 19 Inda Sohal, 25, and baby Ivy were engulfed in the blaze
- Police have charged a 46-year-old woman with murder and arson
A woman has been charged with murder and arson over a suspicious house fire that claimed the lives of a young couple and their 19-day-old newborn baby.
Abbey Forrest, 19, Inda Sohal, 28, and their baby daughter Ivy were killed in the blaze at Point Cook in Melbourne's south-west in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Arson and Explosives Squad detectives this morning took a 46-year-old woman from Airport West into police custody.
She has been charged with three counts of murder and arson causing death. It's understood she knew one of the parents.
The matter will be heard at Melbourne Magistrates' Court later this evening.
The bodies of Abbey Forrest, 19, Inda Sohal, 25, and their baby daughter Ivy (pictured together) were found inside a Point Cook townhouse on Wednesday morning after a blaze tore through the property
Baby Ivy would have been three weeks old on Friday.
The young family had only just moved into the house less than a month ago to start life as a new family.
Abbey's sister Emily Forrest visited the scene of the fatal house fire on Friday morning to lay flowers and a toy outside the remains of the home.
She described her devastation at losing her sister who she said was 'over the moon' to become a mother.
'It should be the perfect time of their life, and now this awful tragedy has happened,' she told the Age.
Emily Forrest visited the scene of the fatal house fire on Friday morning to lay flowers and a toy outside the remains of the home (Pictured left to right: Abbey Forrest, her sister Emily Forrest and their parents)
'She had the biggest, boldest personality. She was great. I'll always cherish the memories that I had growing up with her. She was my only sibling.'
She said she was grateful to get the chance to meet her niece before tragedy struck.
'I came home from a camping trip early and snuck into the hospital and got in a quick little visit despite COVID, and then we had a beautiful family dinner a week or so ago, so we got to meet everybody and our son got to meet his cousin so that was really beautiful,' she said.
'Abbey deserved so much more than this,' she told the Herald Sun.
'Life was just getting perfect for her. She was so proud to be a mum, she took to motherhood like a duck to water and Indi adored his daughter.'
Emily Forrest said the family were hopeful they would soon get answers around how the fire started.
She has started a GoFundMe page to raise funds to cover the costs of their funerals.
'I'm raising money to help with the cost of funerals and memorials for all three of these beautiful souls who had their lives tragically cut short.
'Any help is greatly appreciated.'
More than $9,000 has been raised since the fundraiser was launched.
The young family was found inside a Point Cook townhouse in Melbourne on Wednesday morning after a blaze tore through the property.
Forty firefighters battled the monster blaze for almost an hour which destroyed the townhouse (pictured) within three minutes and saw two neighbouring houses damaged
Neighbours rushed to help the couple after hearing frantic screams coming from the home but they were unable to break through the door in time to get them out.
Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Kennedy said a neighbour made a 'heroic and brave effort' to rescue the occupants with a ladder but was overwhelmed by the intensity of the flames.
'Sadly they did their best but the fire took its toll and nothing could be done,' Sen Sgt Kennedy said.
'In the early hours of Wednesday, December 2nd, a house fire in Point Cook claimed the lives of my 19-year-old sister, her loving partner and their almost three-week-old daughter,' she wrote.
Forty firefighters battled the monster blaze for almost an hour which destroyed the townhouse within three minutes and saw two neighbouring houses damaged.
Emergency services rushed to the Totem Way property at Point Cook about 3.40am Wednesday with reports of a two-storey property engulfed in flames
The cause of the fire is yet to be determined but it is being treated as suspicious.
'It certainly is being treated as suspicious, predominantly because of the intensity of the fire,' Sen Sgt Kennedy said.
'When fire services first got here it was fully engulfed.
'The townhouse was raging, particularly at the front and upstairs ... with accidental fires that doesn't normally occur.'
One of the neighbours, Jemil, said he felt 'sick to his stomach' after not being able to rescue the woman he saw trapped inside the home.
The cause of the fire is yet to be determined but it is being treated as suspicious, as an arson chemist investigates
'We tried everything. We didn't know what else to do. We couldn't run into the house,' he told The Herald Sun.
He said the woman was gasping for air at one of the top-storey windows and a different neighbour threw an axe in attempt to break it so she could jump out.
Unfortunately when the axe did break the glass the woman 'went silent'.
'It's kind of horrifying, gruesome and I just feel sick to the stomach knowing there was someone in that house. It's pretty terrifying,' he said.
Lockie Allen and his father live behind the burnt property and said when they ran outside the entire house was engulfed in flames.
'We're right behind so that could have been us... you don't want to imagine it was us, you don't want it to be (anyone),' he said.
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