A CHARITY has confirmed some of the money it has raised in memory of two young jockeys killed in a North Yorkshire flats blaze will be used to provide accommodation for other promising riders.
About £140,000 has been collected through an appeal set up by Racing Welfare following the deaths of Jamie Kyne and Jan Wilson in the fire which tore through Buckrose Court in Norton last September.
The organisation said a slice of that money will now go towards providing somewhere to live for young apprentice jockeys.
Peter William Brown, 37, of Brotherton, near Selby, was last week convicted of the manslaughter of 18-year-old Jamie, of Co Galway in the Republic of Ireland, and 19-year-old Jan, from Forfar, Scotland, on September 5 last year, when they were trapped in a top-floor flat in the complex as the fire took hold.
Brown will be sentenced at a later date, having been cleared of murdering the two jockeys and of arson with intent to endanger life following a trial at Leeds Crown Court.
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