Sex worker burns young couple and newborn baby to death after setting house on fire

Abigail Forrest, 19, Inderpal Singh, 28, and their three-week-old child Ivy Forrest were killed after the fire tore through the second floor from their townhouse and they couldn't escape

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A woman has admitted to burning down a house and burning a young couple and their three-week-old baby alive, following an argument over sexual services with another tenant of the property.

Jenny Hayes, a sex worker, has been charged with a horrific triple murder after a fire claimed the lives of a young family in the early hours of December 2, 2020.

Abigail Forrest, 19, Inderpal Singh, 28, and their three-week-old child, Ivy Forrest, were killed after fire engulfed the second floor of their townhouse and they were unable to could not escape.

Hayes initially pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder as well as three counts of causing death by arson.

The young couple and their baby daughter Ivy were killed in the fire (

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However, on Wednesday, the 47-year-old woman appeared by video link in the Supreme Court of Victoria from the Dame Phyliis Frost Centre, a women's prison, to change her last plea to a guilty plea.

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The Court heard how Hayes had been with a client at the home in Cook Point, 22 km from the Melbourne CBD, on December 2, in the lower part of the house, Melbourne, Australia.

She had come home later that night and set her client's mattress on fire. She claimed she didn't know the young family lived upstairs and that while her client wasn't home, they were.

Shortly after the fire and his arrest, Hayes texted his son, confessing, "I think I did something stupid," reports Nine News.