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Express & Star 6 Feb 11
A lovesick plumber who risked lives after setting fire to his Willenhall flat has been jailed for three years. Giles Tennent’s actions could have caused several deaths had the blaze not been detected, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.
The 45-year-old downed vodka and cider before setting light to the settee of his top floor home in Willenhall…
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Express & Star 15 Dec 10
A drunk mother who deliberately started a blaze at Walsall petrol station that could have sparked a massive disaster has been jailed for four years.
Leanne Taylor grabbed a five-litre canister of paraffin and poured it over bags of charcoal also for sale on the forecourt of the Jet Garage in Walsall town centre, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard…
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Matt Lloyd Mercury 12 Dec 10
Detectives investigating the gangland-style murder of a Chasetown dad say his Walsall business was torched by arsonists just months before he was shot dead.
Richard Deakin, 27, was gunned down in his home by two masked men in July. The hunt for his killers is ongoing, and cops are now understood to be investigating a link between the blaze at Deakin’s On Time Skip Hire firm in Walsall last December and the shooting…
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BBC News 4 Nov 10
Damage of around £1 million was caused when arsonists struck at European Metal Recycling in Smethwick – days after a similar attack at its sister factory in Darlaston.
West Midlands Police confirmed they were looking at links between the two fires…
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Express & Star 29 Oct 10
Around 120 staff and customers were evacuated from discount superstore Hooty’s in Willenhall’s Longacres Industrial Estate following an arson attack, which destroyed Christmas stock including gift sets and perfume.
A worker raised the alarm after smoke was spotted in the rear storeroom on Thursday night. More than 20 firefighters from Walsall, Dudley and Wednesbury were called to the scene at 7.10pm…
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Cllr Ian Shires 31 Oct 10
Arsonists struck at The Square on Lichfield Road, New Invention on Sunday morning. Fly-tipped furniture had been dragged under the steps leading to the flats above the Co-op and had been deliberately set on fire by arsonists.
The frightening thing about this incident was that the lives of the residents of the flats could have been put at risk if not for the swift action of the Fire Brigade…
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BBC News 29 Oct 10
Three men have been jailed for an arson attack on a mansion seized from a man convicted of mortgage fraud.
George Brandy, Richard Sylvester and Parminder Kandola, all from Nottingham, were jailed at Stafford Crown Court for arson with intent to endanger life…
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Express & Star 29 Oct 10
Arsonists set fire to a former school in Wednesfield, bringing scores of residents out on to the streets to watch as smoke and flames billowed from the building.
Up to 40 per cent of the former Danesmore Park Primary School in Russell Close, Wednesfield, was destroyed in the daylight attack…
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Express & Star 28 Oct 10
Arsonists set fire to machinery at a recycling plant in the Black Country, causing a severe blaze that had to be tackled by more than 70 firefighters.
Two youths were caught on CCTV setting light to a large metal shredder at European Metal Recycling in Darlaston shortly after 9pm last night…
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BBC News 12 Oct 10
Police have confirmed fires at two schools in the Black Country were started deliberately.
A fire at Wilkinson Primary School in Bilston, where about 90% of the building was severely damaged, is being treated as arson by police.
And a derelict school building at the RSA Academy in Tipton, which opened in 2008, has also been destroyed by fire.
About 75 firefighters were at each incident after the alarm was raised on Monday evening…