Appeal of nanny's death penalty sentence wraps up

Defendant claims firefighters didn't try hard enough to extinguish blaze

The nanny responsible for killing four members of a family in an arson appeared in court in eastern China on Thursday to appeal her death sentence.

Mo Huanjing, nanny of the family of Lin Shengbin, pleaded guilty to starting the fire. But she said during the appeal at Zhejiang High People's Court that "the penalty in the original ruling was extremely heavy".