A teenager charged with the murder of a mother and her three children yesterday appeared at Leicester Crown Court, via a live two-way video link.
Kemo Anthony Porter viewed the proceedings from the prison where he is being held, outside Leicestershire.
He spoke only to answer his name during the four-minute hearing.
The 18-year-old is charged with murdering Shehnila Taufiq, 47, Zainab, 19, Bilal, 17, and Jamil, 15, on September 13.
Porter, of Browning Street, West End, Leicester, did not enter a plea to the charges.
Defence solicitor-advocate, Alwyn Jones, said there was no application for bail at this stage but reserved the right to apply in future.
Judge Michael Pert QC adjourned the case for a preliminary hearing on October 4.
He remanded Porter back into custody until then.
The bodies of Mrs Taufiq and her children were found after firefighters were called to a blaze at their home in Wood Hill, Spinney Hills, Leicester, late on Thursday, September 12.
An inquest into the deaths, which was opened and adjourned, heard all four victims died of smoke inhalation in the fire.
