The woman charged over the alleged triple-murder of a young family in a ferocious house fire in Melbourne's south-west is not known to the victims, police say.
Victoria Police today issued a new statement, clarifying the family did not know 46-year-old accused Jenny Hayes from Airport West.
Abbey Forrest, 19, Inda Sohal, 28, and their three-week-old baby daughter Ivy were found dead inside their Point Cook townhouse after a fire ripped through the Totem Way property about 3.40am on Wednesday.
Arson and Explosive Squad detectives yesterday charged Ms Hayes with three counts of murder and arson causing death.
The accused faced the Melbourne Magistrates' Court last night, where she did not apply for bail.
She is expected back in court in March.
Ms Forrest's sister Emily returned to the scene of the fatal blaze yesterday, telling reporters the couple had only moved into the home a few weeks ago, after the birth of their daughter.
The baby girl would have turned three weeks old today.
"I'm just trying to be really strong, and just trying to hold it together for them," she said.
"Their lives had pretty much just started and should be like the perfect time of their life and now this awful tragedy has happened."
Gurvinder Singh, a close friend of Mr Sohal, was too overcome with grief to speak for long about the tragedy.
"I just don't have any words for… I just can't describe the sadness that I'm having now," he said.
Distressed neighbours woke to the sound of their smoke alarm just before 4am to find the house next door engulfed in flames.
They used an axe in a desperate attempt to free a woman from inside the house but were unable to get to her.
"All I can hear in my head right now is them screaming for help," neighbour Jade Bartolo told 9News.
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