DESPERATE neighbours urged Kayleigh Buckley to throw her baby daughter Kimberley out of the window in a bid to save her life, a court heard today.

A neighbour of the three generations of the Buckley family killed in the fire broke down in tears as she told a court how her husband tried to help the women as one screamed "I'm burning, I'm burning".

Sarah Sweeney sobbed as she recalled being woken by the noise coming from 15 Tillsland, Coed Eva, Cwmbran, around 3.30am on September 18.

She said: "I could hear a female voice shouting "I'm burning, I'm burning, I'm on fire."

She phoned 999 as her husband Darren went to try and help.

She then went to the front door of number 15 where she was met by a "fireball" of swirling flames at the front door.

Mrs Sweeney said she heard her husband shouting to the women inside. She said: "I heard Darren shouting "jump, jump" I could hear her banging, he was trying to get into the patio doors. I was too afraid to go into the garden."

"I heard girls shouting to Kayleigh to jump and to drop the baby down and Darren would catch the baby.

"Kayleigh said "I can't, I can't let the baby go.

"She was shouting it was hot and then she was screaming, piercing screams, I'm burning, I'm on fire."

As she heard the screams, Mrs Sweeney saw Mills walking at the side of the house as if he had come from the field behind.

Moment later Kim's bedroom window "exploded" and fell down onto her husband injuring his back, the court heard.

Mrs Sweeney said of Mills: "He did not even glance at the house. It was only afterwards when I stopped and thought about the situation that I realised that. He did not appear to have a care about what was going on."

Mills denies murdering Kim Buckley, 47, her daughter Kayleigh, 17 and granddaughter Kimberley, six months.

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