Replacement e-bike battery ‘led to deadly fire’ in Cambridge

A house fire that killed a Cambridge mother and her two children was started by a replacement e-bike battery that was purchased after the original was stolen, it has been confirmed.

Gemma Germeney, 31, died at the scene of the devastating blaze in Sackville Close, King’s Hedges, on Friday, June 30, while Lilly Peden, 8, and Oliver Peden, 4, were taken to hospital but sadly died later.