Tale of a TRAGEDY
What's on TV|July 17, 2021
The first film of Steve McQueen’s new series spotlights the deadly New Cross house fire…
HANNAH DAVIES, SEAN MARLAND
Tale of a TRAGEDY

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

Many believe the blaze was started deliberately as a racist hate crime, yet despite 13 people dying on that fateful morning, the police never charged anyone with starting the fire.

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