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Deadly blaze

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July 17, 2021

Sir Steve McQueen revisits the 1981 New Cross house fire

Deadly blaze

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Early in the morning of Sunday 18 January 1981, dozens of black youths were enjoying a party at 439 New Cross Road in south-east London, when a fire ripped through the three-storey house.

Many who were there believe the blaze was started deliberately as a racist hate crime – yet, despite the deaths of 13 people, the police never charged anyone.

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