A jury has retired to consider its verdict in the trial of a man accusing of murdering a mum in her North Ormesby home on her 50th birthday.
Heroin addict David McCabe is accused of starting the fatal blaze in Teresa Ryan’s North Ormesby home just moments after he had burgled it in July last year.
The 32-year-old admits entering the mum-of-two’s house and stealing items the day before and the day of her death, but denies murder.
McCabe, of Barrington Crescent, Thorntree, Middlesbrough, claims the fire must have started accidentally after he left her property on Warton Street.
During the trial at Teesside Crown Court, jurors heard that Ms Ryan, who died as a result of smoke inhalation, was a “vulnerable” woman due to Huntington’s disease.
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