‘Members of the jury. He’s lying to you.’

A handyman who burned Eddy Grant’s niece to death has lied to a jury to try and get away with her murder, the Old Bailey heard. Damion Simmons, 45, broke into the house he had shared with wife Denise Keane-Simmons, 36, to pour petrol over her head and set her alight, it is claimed. Simmons jumped from a bathroom window as flames ripped through the terraced house in Alric Avenue, Harlesden, northwest London, and a family friend was rescued from…