Woman killed in flat blaze after she warned her son would harm her

A woman was accidentally burnt to death by her mentally ill son after she had warned he was planning to set their home ablaze for over a week. Joel Ellis, 36, killed 59-year-old Beatrice Yankson when he torched the three-bedroom flat they shared in Mingard Walk, Holloway, north London last 26 October. His mother feared ‘with tragic prescience’ that he would harm her when he began behaving strangely in the days leading up to her death. Ellis bought a jerrycan…