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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mother-cleared-over-blaze-deaths.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Fiona Adams has been cleared of killing her two young children in a fire in Buxton, Derbyshire" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-mother-cleared-over-blaze-deaths.jpg" alt="Fiona Adams has been cleared of killing her two young children in a fire in Buxton, Derbyshire"/></a></p>
<p>A woman has been cleared of killing two of her children in a house fire.</p>
<p>Fiona Adams, 24, was found not guilty by a jury at Nottingham Crown Court of murdering daughter Niamh, five, and two-year-old son Cayden in the blaze in Buxton, Derbyshire.</p>
<p>She escaped from the house in Edale Way with youngest child Kiernan by jumping from an upstairs window just before midnight on April 23 last year.</p>
<p>As the jury delivered its verdict, Adams sobbed loudly and held her hands up to her face. James Maynard, the father of the children, also wept in the public gallery as Adams was cleared of all charges. Members of her family shouted &#8220;yes&#8221; as she was cleared.</p>
<p>During the trial, prosecutor Timothy Spencer QC told the court Adams started the blaze because she wanted to create a &#8220;drama&#8221; to get partner James Maynard&#8217;s attention.</p>
<p>The court heard that Mr Maynard had cheated on Adams several times, which led to her attempting suicide on a previous occasion. Mr Spencer said Mr Maynard was repeatedly late home from his job as a waiter and bartender at the Buckingham Hotel and would often fail to reply to her text messages.</p>
<p>He should have returned home from work that night between 9pm and 10pm and did not, Mr Spencer said, and it was not long after this that Adams began complaining of an intruder in the garden. The court saw CCTV footage taken from a next-door neighbour&#8217;s house around that time, in which banging and crashing could be heard before a woman&#8217;s voice shouted &#8220;hello, hello&#8221;.</p>
<p>Adams called police, telling them someone had &#8220;trashed&#8221; her garden. Two police officers arrived at the house just before 11pm but did not find any signs of a disturbance. The prosecution said Adams, who had tried to call Mr Maynard several times, then started a fire in a laundry basket in the hallway. </p>
<p>Adams said she heard the smoke alarm go off after going to bed, and realised the house was ablaze. She took the children into her bedroom because their windows were locked, she said, then dialled 999.</p>
<p>She said she opened the window to &#8220;chuck the children out of it&#8221;, and remembered letting Kiernan go, then turning round and not being able to see her other children. She denied leaving two of her children to die in the house and that the whole evening was a &#8220;stage drama&#8221;.</p>
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