ARTHUR McElhill, who set fire to his family home at Lammy Crescent, had twice been convicted of sex attacks on teenage girls.
Born in Ederney in Co Fermanagh in October 1971, at the age of 17 he was treated in hospital following a suicide attempt.
He had worked in construction and on farms, and at the time of his death managed a farm on the outskirts of Omagh and also owned cattle.
In 1992, he escaped uninjured when he was the victim of a mistaken-identity IRA gun attack near the Co Tyrone village of Killeter.
Shots were fired at a car - mistaken for a police vehicle - in which he and two others were travelling, with one man receiving serious abdomen and leg injuries.
One year after that attack, he met Lorraine McGovern, then aged just 15 years old, and began an intimate relationship with her.
While Ms McGovern was pregnant with Caroline, the couple's first child, McElhill received a suspended jail sentence after being convicted of indecently assaulting a 17-year-old girl as she slept in her bed in Drumquin, Co Tyrone.
Before that suspended sentence had expired, McElhill sexually assaulted another 17-year-old girl in Irvinestown, Co Fermanagh, in 1996, after breaking into her caravan as she slept.
Jailed for three years in April 1998, he became one of the first people in the north to be placed on the sex offenders' register.
Released after less than 18 months, he and Ms McGovern moved into the house in Lammy Crescent in Omagh later that year.
McElhill is buried in a grave in Ederney, separated from his partner and five children, who are buried close to her family home in the townland of Ardberra in Co Cavan.
