Six-year-old child left critically injured in last month’s Waterford fire dies

A declaration from the English household stated it is with “profound sadness” that they verified Elliot had actually passed away.

“This comes following the tragic events in Birchwood earlier this month, in which Elliot’s mother, Kim, his father, Philip, and his two brothers, Jaden and Callum, tragically lost their lives.

“The household has actually sustained an inconceivable loss, and this most current bereavement has actually left loved ones, neighbours and buddies dealing with a frustrating duration of sorrow.”

They asked for privacy, and that one remaining child still in hospital, a 14-year-old girl, is “kept in everybody’s ideas and prayers”.

There have been several arrests in relation to the arson attack, with two charged in connection with their deaths.

Gardaí are working on “other avenues” in the case, Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly said last month, adding that full resources are still allocated to the investigation, and it is not over.

“This is not the end of this. This is ongoing. There are other avenues that we are working on,” Mr Kelly told a public meeting of the Policing and Community Safety Authority (PCSA) on October 29.

It is suspected that the family was targeted over a €20,000 drug debt that someone known to Mr English was accused of owing, although the family living in the house was not involved in drugs.

Although the case raised widespread horror, on the following two days there were similar arson attacks on other family homes across the country, Mr Kelly said.

“It is unfathomable that even a terrible tragedy like this did not put people off,” he said.

The family was remembered at their funeral mass as “a beautiful family who did no wrong to anybody,” as mourners heard they were “the salt of the earth and lights” in their neighborhood.

Speaking at their requiem Mass at the Sacred Heart Church in Waterford city, parish priest Fr Gerry Chestnutt stated they passed away as an outcome of “an act of overall evil”.