Jail for teenagers who killed pensioner in firework attack

Two teenagers who killed an 88-year-old grandmother when they posted a firework through her letterbox ‘for a laugh’ have been jailed Josephine Smith died in the blaze caused by Kai Cooper, 19, and a 17-year-old boy, who had spent the night terrorising residents in Romford, east London. Mrs Smith, a Blitz survivor and grandmother of seven, lived alone and was upstairs sleeping in Queens Park Road when the 17-year-old posted the firework on 28 October 2021, a week before Bonfire…