A woman who killed two children in a revenge attack in 1997 has been jailed for 13 years.

Fiaz Begum Munshi, 38, went to the Oxford home of Amjad Khan with seven other people on August 26 that year after he broke off their relationship.

Petrol was poured through the letterbox of the house, in which seven members of Mr Khan's family were sleeping, before it was set alight, sparking a deadly blaze.

Emergency services were called to the fire in Magdalen Road, Oxford, at around 3.20am and six of the seven occupants managed to escape from the property.

Nine-year-old Anum Khan died inside the house, while her brother Majid, 15, suffered severe burns to his head and body and died in hospital two days later.

Munshi, of Manley Road, Oldham, was acquitted of murder but found guilty of manslaughter following a trial at Oxford Crown Court.

Six people, including Munshi's sister Riaz, from London, were previously jailed in connection with the deaths.

Sentencing Munshi today, Mr Justice Spencer said: "Six of those involved in this wicked plan to set fire to the house were brought to justice at the time. In 1998 five men were convicted of murder - one of them your boyfriend Haq Nawaz. In 1999 your sister Riaz was, like you, convicted of manslaughter. She was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment.

"That sentence was upheld by the Court of Appeal, which described it as manslaughter of a particularly serious and horrifying type. The Court of Appeal concluded that, though a severe sentence, it was fully justified.

"By the time those six defendants were arrested and charged in December 1997, you had left the country and travelled to Pakistan. You remained there for several years, making a new life for yourself with a husband and children. In 2004 you returned to this country, living openly in Sheffield and then in Oldham.

"It was only in October 2013 that you were finally arrested and brought to justice."