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The brief

A man has been charged with murder after his father was found dead outside a burning house in a suburban driveway. Emergency services were called to the western Sydney home in the early hours of Thursday morning, where they found the body of a man, believed to be aged 64, partially on fire. Superintendent Trent King believed an accelerant was used in the fire, which was allegedly started by the man’s 36-year-old son in Glenmore Park. Police arrested the 36-year-old man in a car on Parkes Avenue at Werrington about 6.45am, five hours after the alleged altercation. The man was treated by paramedics for minor injuries before he was taken…