Police are treating the death of a Tirau grandmother in a house fire as homicide.
Nearly two months after Roma Midwood's body was found inside her home police have announced that the fire was deliberately lit.
This morning Waikato Detective Senior Sergeant Matt Cranshaw said her violent death was shocking, and her family was devastated.
Midwood was found inside her badly damaged Little St home after fire raced through the property in the early hours of May 1.
At the time police treated her death as suspicious.