THE mother of two boys who died following a fire started by their own father was personally selected by the Duchess of Cornwall to attend a reception at Clarence House about domestic abuse.

Jack and Paul Sykes, aged 12 and nine, died following the fire at the former family home on Tennyson Close in Penistone in October 2014.

They were lured to the attic by their father Darren Sykes as pools of petrol burned below. He also perished.

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