The owner of a Rozelle convenience store that was destroyed by a fire that killed three people has been arrested at his hospital bed.
Adeel Khan is expected to be charged with three counts of murder in relation to the blast and subsequent fire earlier this month, police sources say.
Bianka O'Brien, 31, her baby son Jude and their neighbour Chris Noble, 27, all died in the Darling Street fire.
The 44-year-old store owner was also injured in the fire, which police will allege he deliberatley lit, with fire crews finding him trapped underneath a commercial fridge. He remains in hospital and will have a bedside court hearing later on Tuesday.
The fire tore through the convenience store, which he had owned for only months, the neighbouring mobile phone shop and the residential units above in the early hours of September 4.
Mr Khan has remained in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital since.
Mr Noble's two flatmates and another resident, Anthony Carroll, who lived above the store managed to jump free from the building while it was on fire.
A large section of the Rozelle end of Darling Street was closed for almost a fortnight as police combed through the rubble and demolished a neighbouring store amid fears it too could collapse.
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