For nearly three months,the Redfern teen hung on.
The boy,who was staying at a friend’s place in Waterloo before a trip to the Royal Easter Show in April 1998,was trapped in a top-floor bedroom when a petrol bomb was thrown into the home.
Arthur Haines,13,escaped as the home burned around him,but suffered burns to 60 per cent of his body and was taken to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead with severe injuries.
He died 11 weeks later. Police announced a $1 million reward for information about Arthur’s death last year,when his devastated mother Julie Szabo told reporters she thought constantly of her son.
“All this time,it’s been heartache. Every day when I wake up and,until I go to bed,I never[stop] thinking about my son:what he would have been,how he would have been and what he would have become,” she said.
Homicide detectives travelled to Brisbane on Wednesday and arrested Gregory Walker,55,in connection with the teen’s death.
Investigators will apply for his extradition to NSW in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday.
He is expected to face court in Sydney on Friday if the extradition is granted.
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