The father suspected of starting the house fire which killed him, his partner and their five children is to be buried in a separate grave, it was disclosed tonight.
Requiem Mass for Arthur McElhill (39) and the six other victims, will take place in Omagh on Saturday.
But after the service ends at the town's Catholic Sacred Heart Church, he will be buried later in Ederney, Co Fermanagh while the funeral of his partner Lorraine McGovern, 30 and the five children takes place across the border at Corlough, Co Cavan.
Police are treating the deaths of all seven as murder and even though detectives have not confirmed Mr McElhill as a suspect, the major line of investigation being followed is that he used petrol to start the fierce blaze which swept through their end of terrace home at Lammy Crescent on November 13 th.
Monsignor Joseph Donnelly, parish priest at the Sacred Heart, will be the chief celebrant at Saturday's Mass.
Ms McGovern died in the fire with her five children - Caroline, 13, Sean seven, Bellina, four, Clodagh, 19 months, and nine-month-old baby James. They will be buried in her home village, nine miles from Ballyconnell.
Post-mortem examinations said all seven died as a result of smoke inhalation.
Mr McElhill had convictions for sex offences against young women and once served 18 months in prison before moving to live in Omagh. He worked as a stockman for a farmer on the outskirts of the town. Neighbours claimed he had been suffering from depression and had been under medication at the time of the fire.
Inquests into the cause of deaths will be held later. But in the meantime the police investigation will continue. Detectives have made no comment since they announced the day after the fire that they were treating the deaths as murder.
As well as relatives of both families, hundreds are expected to attend the funerals, among them Caroline's second year classmates at the Sacred Heart High School and friends of Sean and Belina, who attended St Connor's Primary School, not far from where they lived.
A motion calling for a public inquiry into the tragedy is due to be debated by Omagh Council next month.
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