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The New Cross house fire was a fire that occurred during a party at a house in New Cross, south-east London, in the early hours of Sunday, 18 January 1981. The blaze killed 13 young people; one survivor committed suicide two years later. Nobody has ever been charged in connection to the fire, which forensic science subsequently established was started from inside the house, either by accident or deliberately. ==Circumstances== The party was a joint birthday celebration for Yvonne Ruddock (one of the victims of the fire) and Angela Jackson (who survived) and was held at No. 439, New Cross Road. It began on the evening of Saturday, 17 January 1981 and continued throughout the night and into the early hours of Sunday.〔Alexis Akwagyiram, ("Did the New Cross fire create a black British identity?" ), BBC News, 18 January 2011.〕 At the time, there was a fairly high degree of racial tension in the area and far-right groups including the National Front were active in the local area. There had also been some early complaints from neighbours about excessive noise from the party . The initial police suspicion was that the party had been fire-bombed, either as a revenge attack or in an attempt to stop the noise; there was also an alternative theory that a fight had broken out, from which the blaze emanated. Subsequent forensic investigation found that the fire had started by an armchair inside the front-room of the property at 5:40am on Sunday morning and police ruled out the theory that a fight had taken place.〔Dee Lahiri, ("'I don't think I can die before I find out what happened to my son'" ), ''The Guardian'', 15 May 2001.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Cross house fire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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