POLICE have tonight charged a 17-year-old male with the murder of two sisters killed in a fire at their North-East home.

Tatum Spence, 14, and her 12-year-old sister Demi-Jade died in the blaze at the house at Lisle Road, in South Shields, South Tyneside, in the early hours of Wednesday, April 4.

The youth is due to appear before South Tyneside magistrates, in South Shields, tomorrow morning.