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– file on deadly Robb Street fire with legal advisorby Michael JordanThe net may have finally closed in on the individuals who hatched a diabolical scheme to set fire to a disputed Robb and King Streets building in November 2014. Two sisters and their father were burnt to death.Kaieteur News has learnt that the police have detained a drug addict who was allegedly paid $50,000 to torch the property, which had been at the centre of a prolonged dispute.Also in custody is an individual who reportedly allowed the arsonist to gain access to the building.Investigators are being told that a city businessman, who has claimed ownership of the property, had paid the ‘junkie’ to set the building on fire.Police believe that the building was torched to drive out individuals who were also claiming ownership by way of prescriptive rights.Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum disclosed that a file on the case was dispatched yesterday to Legal Advisor to the Guyana Police Force, former Justice of Appeal,Jerseys From China, Claudette Singh.Police have repeatedly questioned and released on bail the suspected mastermind who is a businessman,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, in the burning that claimed the life of Theresa Rozario, 15, her 12-year-old sister, Feresa Rozario, and their father, Hilrod Randolph Thomas.After an apparent lull in the investigation, the businessman was detained last week, after an individual informed police that the businessman had approached him to burn the building.The businessman has been ordered to report daily at CID Headquarters, Eve Leary. His passport has also been confiscated. His stepson is among those in custody,Cheap Jerseys Supply, and the businessman yesterday alleged that police are attempting to force the stepson to implicate him.Yesterday, the courts granted the police a further 72-hour extension to the time they can hold the suspect in custody.In an interview with Kaieteur News, the businessman also refuted suggestions that he had ordered the deadly arson attack.“They said I paid people…Absolutely not,” he said, while naming other individuals whom he claimed may have set the fire.The businessman also insisted that he became the legal owner of the property after his brother’s death in 2001.Theresa Rozario, 15, and her 12-year-old sister, Feresa Rozario, were trapped in the early morning inferno that destroyed the disputed property.Their father, Hilrod Randolph Thomas, who jumped through a window but suffered second and third degree burns, later succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.Back then, a male street-walker had told reporters that he was standing at the corner of King Street and North Road when he noticed a car continuously traversing the area.The eyewitness said two individuals exited the vehicle and headed to the Robb Street building. One of the men kicked a door open, entered the property and made an unsuccessful attempt to set it alight.The eyewitness said the men, who had entered the car, exited the vehicle and one of them returned to the building with a bottle-lamp and again attempted to set the building alight. The men both ran back to vehicle and made good their escape.Rosemary Rozario,Cheap Jerseys Outlet, the mother of the two girls,NFL Cheap Jerseys, has claimed that a businessman had threatened to torch the building. She said that someone had also made previous attempts to burn the building.City Hall records show that a number of persons are laying claim to the property.In 2015, Attorney-at-Law Saphier Husain had told Kaieteur News that relatives of arson victim Hilrod Thomas had secured his services.He said that the family has reasonable evidence to identify the individuals behind the attack that killed Thomas and his daughters.