Family tribute to children and ‘devoted’ mother killed in Bootle house fire

Kane Stephenson reportedly escaped the blaze that claimed the life of his wife Elisha Brabin

Tributes have been paid to a mother and her three children who died in a house fire in Merseyside.

Elisha Brabin and her three children, Leo, 16, Ellis Brabin, 8, and Prudence Brabin, 7, were killed after a fire ripped through their semi-detached home in Bootle, Liverpool at 4am on Tuesday.

Their father Kane Stephenson is understood to have desperately tried to rescue those inside, breaking windows before being forced back by the flames. 

Emergency services were called at around 3.45am after reports that the property was ‘well alight’ w...